Etching on vélin d'Annonay, des frères Montgolfier paper. Signed in the plate and unnumbered, as issued. Paper size: 7.5 x 5.5 inches. Excellent condition. Notes: From the volume, Dix filles dans un pré. Ballet imaginaire. Avec quatre gravures à l'eau-forte de Marie Laurencin, 1926. Published by Au Sans Pareil, Paris; printed by Lacourière, Paris, 1926. Excerpted from the volume (translated from French), XX examples on vélin de cuve, with a double sequence of engravings, including one in first condition. These examples, reserved for Friends of the Unparalleled and printed in their name, are numbered from I to XX; XXV examples; LX examples on Holland Van Gelder, with a series of engravings (Nos. 56 to 115); LXXX examples on Holland Van Gelder (Nos 116 At 195); DCCC examples on vélin d'Annonay, des frères Montgolfier (Nos. 196 to 995), and some non-commercial examples, marked J. R. B., and all signed by the publisher. 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.