Laurencin, Marie Melanie
(1883–1956)
Laurencin, Marie MelanieLaurencin, Marie MelanieMarie Melanie Laurencin (B * PARIS, 1883 – D † PARIS, 1956) French painter and poet, set designer for ballets, including Les Biches (The Does, 1924), choreographed by Nijinska (1891–1972) to music by Poulenc. She was the illegitimate daughter of a Creole mother. She studied art at the Académie Humbert, marrying its director, Fernand Humbert (1879–1914), but the liaison was extremely short-lived and tenuous. In 1905, she was introduced to the…