About This Artwork

Marie Laurencin
French, 1885-1956

Bust of a Young Woman, n.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

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.