Vase de Fleurs by Marie Laurencin, 1986

Artist: Marie Laurencin

Medium: Lithographic Reproduction, 1986

Dimensions: 30 x 21.25 in, 76.2 x 54 cm

Born out of wedlock, Marie Laurencin’s Creole mother ensured that she had a middle-class education. She, however, chose to devote herself to art and enrolled in the Ecole de Manufacture de Sèvres (a state-run porcelain factory), where she learned to paint on porcelain.