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Art historian Tara Keny will present the lecture, “Marie Laurencin’s Sapphic Circles of Influence.” Lesbian artistic and literary circles thrived in early-twentieth-century Paris. One key figure was the writer and socialite Natalie Clifford Barney. Known as “the Amazon” among Parisians, she was a Dayton, Ohio native and heiress to a railroad fortune. A close friend of Laurencin, Barney served as an inspiration for her poetry and her coded equestrian imagery. In her intimate garden, tucked away on 20 rue Jacob, Barney hosted the city’s brightest artists and intellectuals, encouraging all who came to treat their life as an art form, to be true to themselves and open about their sexuality. Regulars included the writers Colette, Gertrude Stein, and Djuna Barnes as well as Marie Laurencin, the publisher Sylvia Beach, and the artist Romaine Brooks. Jean Cocteau, Marcel Proust, T.S. Eliot, and Etienne Mallarmé were also attendees. She declared in her memoire “…anything difficult to say must be shouted from the rooftops.” During this lecture Keny will explore how the artistic lives of Laurencin, Barney, Stein, and Beach intertwined and influenced subsequent generations of artists.Tickets are free for members, $10 for nonmembers.
Installation image featuring: Marie Laurencin, Les Deux soeurs au Violoncelle, 1913–1914. Oil on canvas. Musée Marie Laurencin, Tokyo. © Fondation Foujita / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris 2023
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