Marie Laurencin (1883-1956)
Property from an Important Private Collection
Marie Laurencin (1883-1956)

La petite fille au volant ou Fillette en blanc

Details
Marie Laurencin (1883-1956)
La petite fille au volant ou Fillette en blanc
signed and dated 'Marie Laurencin 1940' (upper right)
oil on canvas laid down on board
28 5/8 x 23 5/8 in. (72.7 x 60 cm.)
Painted in 1940
Provenance
Galerie Paul Rosenberg, Paris.
Confiscated in Floriac following the Nazi occupation of France after May 1940.
Restituted to Paul Rosenberg, 1948.
Galerie Georges Moos, Geneva.
Private collection, Geneva (acquired from the above, circa 1950).
Private collection, Geneva (by descent from the above); sale, Christie's, New York, 6 November 2013, lot 359.
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.
Literature
G. Day, Marie Laurencin, Paris, 1947 (illustrated).
D. Marchesseau, Marie Laurencin: Catalogue raisonné de l'oeuvre peint, Tokyo, 1986, vol. I, p. 309, no. 749 (illustrated).

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