Paris renewed an old and well-remembered friendship. Marie Laurencin, 68, had her first one-man show in years. One look was enough to convince Paris that Marie still belongs in the inner circle of French moderns and that her touch is as light and pleasure-bent as ever. Said admiring Poet Andre Salmon: "She can paint a girl with eyes like a doe, and a doe with eyes like a girl."
Girls—pretty girls—were the subjects of practically all of Marie Laurencin's 32 recent oils. There were young girls, teen-age girls, groups of schoolgirls talking, girls dancing, looking demure or just gazing quietly off into...
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