Marie Laurencin Quotes
My ambition is that men should have a voluptuous feeling when they look at the portraits I paint of women. Love interests me more than painting. My pictures are the love stories I tell to myself and which I want to tell others.
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| Birth: | 31st October, 1883 |
| Death: | 8th June, 1956 |
| Nationality: | French |
| Profession: | Painter |
About
Laurencin was born in Paris, where she was raised by her mother and lived much of her life. At 18, she studied porcelain painting in Sèvres. She then returned to Paris and continued her art education at the Académie Humbert, where she changed her focus to oil painting.
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