Word: laurencin
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...75th. The stimulus of still life is ages old, the artist's response to it always new. Persuasive testimony to the fact: a collection that begins with Vanderhamen, a Spanish painter of Flemish ancestry who worked in Madrid more than 300 years ago, embraces Ruoppolo, Bernard, Lebasque, Marie Laurencin (a pink bouquet of roses on wood believed to be her only extant still life), Pechstein, Hartley and others, concludes with a contemporary Spaniard, Josep Roca. Through March...
...Steegmuller is never certain whether, as a man, Apollinaire is some kind of contorted hero or merely a monster of genius. The lapse is not surprising. Apollinaire's friends weren't sure either. Marie Laurencin, the painter with whom he lived for four years, has left history little more searching commentary than the fact that Apollinaire insisted they make love in a chair because he couldn't bear to have his bed rumpled...
...enough, when he came down next morning, the walls of his dining room were bare. "We've been robbed!" he screamed, as his wife and mother burst into tears. Gone were three Braques, three Légers, a Picasso, Modigliani, Buffet, Dufy, Miró, Matisse, Bonnard, Utrillo, Valadon, Laurencin, Derain, Bazaine, Pascin and a Rouault...