Marie Laurencin
Marie Laurencin is a French painter, illustrator and stage designer. She was born as an illegitimate child and was raised by her mother. She didn’t learn the identity of her father until she was an adult and he had already died. At the age of 18 she was sent away to learn porcelain painting at a factory. She returned to Paris, determined to be trained and become a painter. Shortly she was exhibiting her work as a cubist within the artistic circle of Pablo Picasso and found herself the mistress of a famous poet. Her affair with Apollinaire was intense but lasted only seven years due to the fact that he was a flagrant womanizer.
During the first World War Laurencin left France for Spain with her new husband Baron Otto von Waetjen. After several years she returned to France divorced. Soon “an arrangement” with the art dealer, Paul Rosemberg, allowed her to work without financial concern. During the Depression and throughout the 1930s she was employed as an art instructor at a private school. She died at the age of 72 and was buried in the manner that she had requested. She was laid to rest in a white dress holding a rose in one hand and clutching Apollinaire’s letters to her heart with the other.
A video of Laurencin’s work is found online. Most of her paintings are of pale, wistful women with dark eyes. Occasionally her extraordinary talent comes through when depicting a specific individual or in her self-portraits. Laurencin is famous for this one-liner “Why should I paint dead fish, onions, and beer glasses? Girls are so much prettier?” She may have been bi-sexual. Her inclinations are the subject of two sources; Marie Laurencin and the Lesbian Left Bank, and Bi visibility: Marie Laurencin
Which of these dates was Marie Laurencin’s birthday?
#80 SAT SCO 10/31/1885
#44 WED SCO 10/31/1883
#68 FRI SCO 10/31/1884
There are three birth dates listed for artist Marie Laurencin on the Internet. All three have Scorpio Sun Sign signatures, which explains a great deal about her OUTER character. She was often overly-dramatic and sexually magnetic. If the day of the week was Saturday, Laurencin would have faced some hardships, but she always made the best of things Being born on Wednesday usually indicates some special kind of mental capacity or insight. She was exceptionally witty. A Friday birthday birthday may have provided her artistic style which was quite feminine.
Wikipedia is an authoritative sources for biographies. The English version lists 1883 as the year of Laurencin’s birth, but the French version gives 1885. You would think that the authors of the two references would check with one-another, but apparently not. It should be noted that there is one, and only one site, that mentions both the 1883 and 1985 but with not a clue as to why. Maybe the controversy as to her birth date is due to the fact she was born out of wedlock; perhaps because it she didn’t care. Most sources in the U.S.A. use only the Wednesday 1883 birthday. and likewise many European entries give the 1885 Saturday date.
UPDATE – Now we don’t even have to guess at this date. ASTRO DATABANK, the most authoritative source for astrological information lists Marie Laurencin’s birth date as 10/31/1983. It comes directly from her birth certificate, which is absolutely as good as you can get. It also states that Marie had heterosexual and lesbian affairs, which helps to clear up another mystery.
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