About This Artwork

Marie Laurencin
French, 1885-1956

Seated Lady, Wearing a Long Skirt, 1906

Brown, black, blue, green and orange colored pencils on cream wove paper
197 x 120 mm
Signed recto, lower right, in pen and brown ink: "Marie Laurencin / 1906"; inscribed verso, lower right, in red pencil: "1906"
Bequest of Mrs. Gordon Palmer, 1985.477

Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories

Exhibition History

Chicago, Arts Club, "Loan Exhibition of Modern Paintings and Drawings from Private Collections in Chicago," November 4–25 1938, cat. 67.

Ownership History

Mrs. Potter Palmer II (née Pauline Kohlsaat; d. 1956), Chicago, by 1938 [Chicago 1938]; 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.