Etching on vélin de Rives BFK à la forme paper. Paper Size: 9.8 x 7.9 inches. Excellent condition. Inscription: Signed in the plate and unnumbered, as issued. Notes: From the album, Antarés, eaux-fortes originales de Marie Laurencin, 1944. Published by Éditions du Pavois, Paris; printed by Ateliers d'art Paul Haasen, Paris, December 31, 1944. Excerpted from the album, Completed printing on the presses of Draeger Frères, December 31, 1944 for the Éditions du Pavois. The boards were engraved, copperplate, by Marie Laurencin and printed on the presses of the Ateliers d'art Paul Haasen, in Paris. This album includes five original etchings by Marie Laurencin, shot at CCC examples on rives bfk In the form; to know: X examples marked, AAJ including a suite en bistre on Chine before signature and a black suite on Chine of the final state. XXII examples numbered from I to XXII, including a suite before signature on Rives. CCLXVIII examples, numbered from I to CCLXVIII, and some examples brands H.C., reserved for employees. It was added to the II top specimens, the tests of the first states of etchings. MARIE LAURENCIN (1883-1956) was a French painter and printmaker. She became an important figure in the Parisian avant-garde as a member of the Cubists associated with the Section d'Or. During the early years of the 20th century, Laurencin was an important figure in the Parisian avant-garde. A member of both the circle of Pablo Picasso, and Cubists associated with the Section d'Or, such as Jean Metzinger, Albert Gleizes, Robert Delaunay, Henri le Fauconnier, and Francis Picabia, exhibiting with them at the Salon des Indépendants (1910-1911) and the Salon d'Automne (1911-1912), and Galeries Dalmau (1912) at the first Cubist exhibition in Spain. She became romantically involved with the poet Guillaume Apollinaire, and has often been identified as his muse. In addition, Laurencin had important connections to the salon of the American expatriate and lesbian writer Natalie Clifford Barney. She had relationships with men and women, and her art reflected her life, her "balletic wraiths" and "sidesaddle Amazons" providing the art world with her brand of "queer femme with a Gallic twist." She had a forty years long love relationship with fashion designer Nicole Groult.