About This Artwork

Marie Laurencin
French, 1885-1956

Self-Portrait, c. 1904-06

Charcoal, with erasing, brush and brown wash, and orange pencil on cream wove paper, edge-mounted to strips of cream wove paper
198 x 132 mm (primary support, max.); 210 x 144 mm (with mount)
Signed recto, left edge, in graphite: "Marie Laurencin"; upper right, in graphite: "ML"
Restricted gift of Mrs. Richard Selle, 1965.412

Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories

Exhibition History

Birmingham, Ala., Birmingham Museum of Art, "Marie Laurencin: Artist and Muse," March 18–May 14, 1989, p. 92, cat. 25; traveled to Memphis, Tenn., the Dixon Gallery and Gardens, July 9–August 20, 1989.

Publication History

Daniel Marchessau, Marie Laurencin: Catalogue Raisonné de l’Oeuvre, vol. II (Japan, 1999), p. 280, no. PP0040 (ill.).

Ownership History

Sold by Stephen Higgons, Paris, to the Art Institute, 1965.