"The little I learned was taught to me by those I call the great painters: Matisse, Derain, Picasso, Braque."
A member of the École de Paris, Marie Laurencin is a French figurative painter, engraver, and illustrator, closely associated with the birth of modern art. Marie Laurencin’s style, named "nymphism", transcends both Fauvism and Cubism. Alongside the greatest artists of her time, namely Georges Braque, Pablo Picasso, André Derain, and Henri Matisse, she was one of the pioneers of both Cubism and Dadaism. In her works, she tends towards metamorphosis, marrying two of her favorite themes: young women and animals. Her very individual style, divisive in its sentimentality, depicts princesses and fairy creatures in pastel shades, flowers, as well as androgynous, eerily pale teenage girls.