Photograph
ca.1920s (photographed)
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Photograph mounted on green card
Object details
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| Materials and techniques | Photograph |
| Brief description | Photograph of a terracotta head of Marie Laurencin by Hermann Haller |
| Physical description | Photograph mounted on green card |
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| Credit line | Bequeathed by Kineton Parkes in 1938 |
| Object history | This photograph is from a collection bequeathed by William Kineton Parkes in 1938. Kineton Parkes was a novelist, art historian and librarian, who was best known for his writing on sculpture. He sent out questionnaires to sculptors in the 1920s, which are now held in the Archive of Art and Design. This photograph is one of many which were sent to Kineton Parkes by the sculptors he approached to complete the questionnaire. |
| Bibliographic reference | The following excerpt is from a brief biography of French painter, portrait artist, and set designer, Marie Laurencin, by Elizabeth Ashburn at the GLBTQ Archive:
'In 1914 Laurencin married Baron Otto von Wätjen. For the duration of World War I, she and her husband took refuge in Spain. In 1921 she returned to Paris and divorced von Wätjen. While Laurencin had a succession of male lovers, she also had close female friendships and lesbian relationships. She became part of the female expatriate community in Paris that sought both artistic and sexual liberation. Lesbianism, for many of these women, was a crucial element of their resistance to bourgeois social conventions.
The first American who befriended Laurencin and bought her paintings was Gertrude Stein. Laurencin soon became part of the Stein salon on rue de Fleurus, where artists, writers, and intellectuals met for conversation and inspiration. Laurencin remained in contact with Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas until Stein's death in 1946 and continued to see Toklas until her own death.
She also met Natalie Barney during these early years in Paris and corresponded with her during the 1940s. As another expression of her interest in lesbianism, late in her career Laurencin illustrated Sappho's poetry in a translation by Edith de Beaumont [1950]'.
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| Accession number | 6199-1938 |
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| Record created | October 15, 2015 |
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