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Marie Laurencin was born October 31, 1883 in Paris (France). In 1907, she exposes for the first time at the Salon des Indépendants, the salon that rejected the impressionistic style. At this salon Pablo Picasso introduced her to Guillaume Apollinaire, with whom she would have an interesting tumultuous relationship that lasted till 1912.
In 1914, Marie Laurencin marries with Baron Otto von Wätjen whom she had met only a year before. The couple flees from France during the war and went to Madrid and Barcelona (both in Spain).
Marie Laurencin wrote some poems for a joint exposition in 1918 between husband Robert Delaunay and wife Sonia Delaunay. The exposition was organised by other artist Francis Picabia. She returned to Paris is 1920.
After 1920 she became the official portrait painter from the mondain female world (Nicole Groult, Coco Chanel). In 1924 she did a remarkable job decorating the ballet "Les Biches", as well as for the l'Opéra-Comique, la Comédie Française and the Ballets de Roland Petit at the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées.
Marie Laurencin died June 8, 1956 in Paris, the city she loved.
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