Marie Laurencin: An Eye for Her Time

9 December [Sat], 2023 - 3 March [Sun], 2024

Marie Laurencin (1883-1956) was a female painter active in the first half of the twentieth century. She is often introduced as a Cubist, but she is a presence who does not fit the art-historical narrative focused on avant-garde art movements and isms. Laurencin herself stated that Matisse, Derain, Picasso, and Braque, her contemporaries, were the artists who influenced her. She did not, however, imitate their styles but created her own, using pastel colors. While observing her time and its demands, she sought her own direction.

This exhibition includes about 40 works by Laurencin from the Ishibashi Foundation Collection and museums in Japan and abroad, plus 25 related materials, including her illustrations for books, and 25 works by painters who were her contemporaries. Through approximately 90 works, the exhibition introduces Laurencin’s oeuvre in terms of multiple themes, and, comparing her work with that of other painters with whom she is connected, explores the fascinating nature of her paintings.

Section
Prologue: Encountering Marie Laurencin
Section 1: Marie Laurencin and Cubism
Section 2: Marie Laurencin and Literature
Section 3: Marie Laurencin and Portrait Painting
Section 4: Marie Laurencin and the Performing Arts
Section 5: Marie Laurencin and the Still Life
Epilogue: Marie Laurencin and Her Art

Biography

Marie Laurencin painting 《Three Young Women》, c.1953, Musée Marie Laurencin

Marie Laurencin

arie Laurencin (1883-1956) studied at the Académie Humbert and then began her career as a Cubist painter. In 1914, she married a German baron and automatically acquired German citizenship. Thus, when World War I began, she was compelled to seek asylum outside of France. In 1920, she chose divorce. Returning to Paris, she achieved success at a solo exhibition in 1921. She lived almost entirely in Paris, even after the outbreak of World War II, and continued creating there until her death, at seventy-two, in 1956.

Exhibition overview

Exhibition title: Marie Laurencin: An Eye for Her Time

Exhibition period: 9 December [Sat], 2023 - 3 March [Sun], 2024

Opening hours: 10:00 – 18:00 (until 20:00 on Fridays except February 23) *Last entry 30 minutes before closing.

Closed: Mondays (except January 8, February 12), December 28 – January 3, January 9, February 13

Organizer: Artizon Museum, Ishibashi Foundation

Under the auspices of: Embassy of France / Institut français du Japon

Venue: 6F Gallery

Concurrent Exhibition: Selections from the Ishibashi Foundation Collection（5-4F Gallery）
Special Section NOMIYAMA Gyoji（4F Gallery）

Ticket prices (incl. tax)

	On-line ticket	In-Person ticket (purchase at museum)
General	1,800 yen　*Credit card payments only	2,000 yen
University college high school students	Free entry　Advance booking required Please present student ID upon entry.
Disabled visitors (plus one accompanying assistant)	Free entry　Advance booking not required Please present disabled person’s handbook upon entry.
Children through junior high school	Free entry　Advance booking not required

*Online tickets must be purchased up to 10 minutes before the end of each time slot.
*Booking is not accepted when a time slot is full.
*In-Person ticket may be purchased at the museum, if the time slot is not full.
*This admission fee gives the visitor access to the concurrent exhibitions.