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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
May 11, 2016 | Bonhams | New York | Impressionist and Modern Art | 9 | $****** - ****** | Fleurs dans un pot |
paintings
41.1 x 32.8 cm (16.18 x 12.91 in)
oil on canvas
signed 'Laurencin' (on the reverse)
Guillaume Apollinaire, Paris (a gift from the artist).,Madame Jacqueline Apollinaire, Paris (by descent from the above)
Palais Galliéra, Paris, 9 December 1968, lot 56.,Ansley Graham, Los Angeles.,Anon. sale, Sotheby Parke Bernet, Los Angeles, 25 May 1971, lot 26.,Mr. and Mrs. Eugen Joseph Wedber, Los Angeles, and thence by descent to the present owners.This sense of intimacy is further enhanced by the of the work. The meeting between Marie Laurencin and the rising poet Guillaume Apollinaire was arranged by Pablo Picasso in 1907, perhaps with his own interests at heart since he coveted Apollinaire's then companion, Fernande Olivier. Apollinaire and Laurencin became a dynamic, if tormented, partnership who frequently over-indulged in the many delights that Bohemian Parisian nightlife had to offer. They spent a great deal of time with Picasso and Olivier, although perhaps understandably the two women were not close (F. Olivier, Picasso et ses amis, Paris, 2001, pp. 117-118). That same year Laurencin painted Groupe d'artistes, a group portrait which immortalized the awkward 'ménage-à-trois-plus-one'. The painting depicts, from right to left, Picasso, Laurencin, Apollinaire, and Olivier. It includes as its only decorative element a small bouquet of flowers in the upper right, very similar in color and execution to the present work. Fleurs dans un pot and the group portrait were painted at about the same time. Gertrude Stein, who owned Groupe d'artistes, refers to the work in The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas as 'the first picture of [Marie Laurencin's] anyone had ever bought' (G. Stein, The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas, New York, 1990, p. 62)
D. Marchesseau, Marie Laurencin, Catalogue Raisonné de l'Oeuvre Peint, Tokyo, 1986, vol. I, p. 61, no. 24
