artsy – Laurencin was perhaps the most celebrated woman painter of avant-garde Paris. She was colleagues with Picasso at a time when few women were permitted into his inner circle. Laurencin was also a society fixture, befriending and painting Coco Chanel, and regularly attending Natalie Barney’s salons. – read more
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