News Release
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August 30, 2023
Artizon Museum
Ishibashi Foundation

Marie Laurencin: An Eye for Her Time
December 9 [Sat] – March 3 [Sun], 2024

Marie LAURENCIN, The Princesses, 1928, Nakanoshima Museum of Art, Osaka

The Artizon Museum, Ishibashi Foundation (Director: Ishibashi Hiroshi), presents Marie
Laurencin: An Eye for Her Time.
Marie Laurencin (1883-1956) was a female painter active in the first half of thetwentieth century. She is often introduced as a Cubist, but she is a presence who does
not fit the art-historical narrative focused on avant-garde art movements and isms.
Laurencin herself stated that Matisse, Derain, Picasso, and Braque, her contemporaries,
were the artists who influenced her. She did not, however, imitate their styles but
created her own, using pastel colors. While observing her time and its demands, shesought her own direction.
This exhibition includes about 40 works by Laurencin from the Ishibashi Foundation
Collection and museums in Japan and abroad, plus 25 related materials, including her
illustrations for books, and 25 works by painters who were her contemporaries.
Through approximately 90 works, the exhibition introduces Laurencin’s oeuvre interms of multiple themes, and, comparing her work with that of other painters withwhom she is connected, explores the fascinating nature of her paintings.
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Marie Laurencin
Marie Laurencin (1883-1956) studied at the Académie Humbert
and then began her career as a Cubist painter. In 1914, shemarried a German baron and automatically acquired German
citizenship. Thus, when World War I began, she was compelled
to seek asylum outside of France. In 1920, she chose divorce.
Returning to Paris, she achieved success at a solo exhibition in1921. She lived almost entirely in Paris, even after the outbreakof World War II, and continued creating there until her death, atMarie Laurencin painting Three
Young Women, c.1953, MuséeMarie Laurencin

seventy-two, in 1956.

Exhibition Highlights
1. A Multi-faceted View of Laurencin’s Career
Laurencin had close ties not only to painters andsculptors but also to writers and poets, and she
published her own poetry. She also worked in a wide
range of fields, including ballet set and costume design.
This exhibition presents her highly diverse activities,
from her early work as a Cubist painter to Three Young
Women, a masterwork of her late period.
Marie LAURENCIN, Three Young Women, c.1953, Musée Marie Laurencin

2. Laurencin in Rivalry with Her Contemporaries
Laurencin was a painter who interacted with other artists of hertime. This exhibition introduces her work with that of Georges
Braque and Pablo Picasso, whom she met when she had justbegun painting, as well as Fujita Tsuguharu (Leonard Foujita) andother painters active in Paris during her career. Comparing her
work with that of her contemporaries will assist in gaining a better
understanding of what makes Laurencin distinctive.

Marie LAURENCIN, Pablo Picasso, c.1908, Musée Marie Laurencin

3. An International Gathering of Her Work
This exhibition displays 35 works from this museum’s collection, about 50 from the MuséeMarie Laurencin and 14 other museums in Japan and 4 from 4 museums overseas: aninternational conclave of about 90 works.
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Section of the Exhibition
Prologue: Encountering Marie Laurencin
Section 1: Marie Laurencin and Cubism
Section 2: Marie Laurencin and Literature
Section 3: Marie Laurencin and Portrait Painting
Section 4: Marie Laurencin and the Performing Arts
Section 5: Marie Laurencin and the Still Life
Epilogue: Marie Laurencin and Her Art

Works on Display
1234567877883/51）Marie LAURENCIN, Self-Portrait Wearing a Hat, c.1927, Musée Marie Laurencin
2）Marie LAURENCIN, Woman with a Fez, 1938, The Yamazaki Mazak Museum of Art
3）Marie LAURENCIN, Woman Holding a Mirror, c.1937, Artizon Museum, Ishibashi Foundation4）Marie LAURENCIN, Two Young Girls, 1923, Artizon Museum, Ishibashi Foundation5）Marie LAURENCIN, Bouquet of Flowers, 1939, Musée Marie Laurencin
6）Marie LAURENCIN, Camille Ⅲ, 1936, Musée Marie Laurencin
7）Marie LAURENCIN, Camille Ⅶ, 1936, Musée Marie Laurencin
8）Marie LAURENCIN, Camille Ⅸ, 1936, Musée Marie Laurencin

Exhibition Overview
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Marie Laurencin: An Eye for Her Time
Artizon Museum, Ishibashi Foundation
Embassy of France / Institut français du japon
Artizon Museum, 6F Gallery
December 9 [Sat], 2023 – March 3 [Sun], 2024
10:00 - 18:00 (until 20:00 on Fridays except February 23)*Last entry 30 minutes before closing.
Mondays (except January 8, February 12), December 28 – January 3January 9, February 13
Timed entry system(Online booking starts from October 10, 2023)
Online ticket: 1,800 yen
In-Person ticket (purchase at museum): 2,000 yen
Students: Free entry (Advance online booking required.)*In-Person ticket may be purchased at the museum, if the time slot is not full.
*Advance booking is not required for children up to junior high school age.
*This admission fee gives the visitor access to all concurrent exhibitions.

Curators:

KAGAWA Kyoko, UTSUMI Junya

Concurrent Exhibitions
Selections from the Ishibashi Foundation Collection
The Ishibashi Foundation Collection now consists of approximately 3,000 works, including
Impressionist paintings from the latter half of the nineteenth century, modern paintings fromthe twentieth century, modern Japanese paintings from the Meiji period on, postwar Abstract
paintings, early modern and modern art from Japan and elsewhere in East Asia, and ancient
Greek and Roman art. Here we introduce works selected from the collection at 5 and 4Galleries.

Special Section NOMIYAMA Gyoji（4F Gallery）
Nomiyama Gyoji (1920-2023) established his own unique style, somewhere between realism
and abstraction, during his long career. The Special Section NOMIYAMA Gyoji exhibition
explores the fascination of his work, displaying all 7 of his works in the Ishibashi Foundation
Collection. They include 3 recently acquired works being exhibited for the first time.
4/5Left）NOMIYAMA Gyoji, Tahiti, 1974, Artizon Museum,Ishibashi Foundation [Recent acquisitions]
Right）NOMIYAMA Gyoji, Hunch, 2006, Artizon Museum,Ishibashi Foundation [Recent acquisitions]

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