About This Artwork
Marie Laurencin
French, 1885-1956
Bust of a Young Womann.d.
Graphite, with traces of red pencil on buff wove paper
215 x 133 mm
Signed recto, lower left, in graphite: "Marie Laurencin"
Bequest of Mrs. Gordon Palmer, 1985.472
Prints and Drawings
Not on Display
Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories
Exhibition History
Chicago, Arts Club, "Loan Exhibition of Modern Drawings and Sculpture Privately Owned by Chicagoans," January 3–17, 1930, cat. 100.
Chicago, Arts Club, "Loan Exhibition of Paintings and Drawings from Private Collections in Chicago," November 4–25, 1938, cat. 69.
Ownership History
Mrs. Potter Palmer II (née Pauline Kohlsaat; died 1956), Chicago, by 1930 [Chicago 1930]; by descent to her son, Gordon Palmer (1914–1964), Sarasota, Fla.; by descent to his wife, Janis H. Palmer (1917–1984), Sarasota, Fla.; bequeathed to the Art Institute, 1985.