Woman Holding White Fan by Marie Laurencin

Artist: Marie Laurencin

Medium: Lithographic Reproduction, 1991

Dimensions: 30 x 21.75 in, 76.2 x 55.2 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.