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Marie Laurencin | Portrait of Dr. Le Masle, 1949, oil on canvas, 33.2 x 24 cm., Musée des Beaux-arts de Nancy

Marie Laurencin | Les jeunes filles, 1911, oil on canvas, 115 x 146 cm, Moderna Museet, Stockholm

Marie Laurencin | Réunion à la campagne (Apollinaire et ses amis), 1909, oil on canvas, 130 x 194 cm, Musée Picasso, Paris.
Portraits of: Gertrude Stein, Fernande Olivier, a muse, Guillaume Apollinaire, Fricka the dog, Pablo Picasso, Marguerite Gillot, Maurice Cremnitz and Marie Laurencin.

Marie Laurencin, Les Biches, 1924, oil on canvas, 73 x 92 cm, © Photo: Josse/Leemage, © ADAGP, Paris

Marie Laurencin | Portrait de Mademoiselle Chanel, 1923
Oil on canvas
92 x 73 cm, 36 x 29 in
Musée de l'Orangerie, Paris

The painting, upon completion, was rejected by Chanel, who felt that Laurencin's woman did not bear enough of a likeness to her.

Marie Laurencin (31 October 1883 – 8 June 1956) was a French painter and printmaker.

Self-portrait, 1906, colored pencil and pencil on paper, 7.875 x 5 in., MoMA, Gift of Steven C. Rockefeller

#OTD #ArtistBirthday #FrenchArtist #WomanArtist #SelfPortrait

Louise Abbéma | Portrait of a Young Girl with a Blue Ribbon, 1895
Pastel on canvas
18x15 in.
Gift of Wallace and Wilhelmina Holladay
National Museum of Women in the Arts

Louise Abbéma | Portrait de Jeanne Samary (1857-1890), sociétaire de la Comédie-Française, Oil on canvas. 1879. Paris, Carnivalet Museum.

Louise Abbéma | A Game of Croquet, 1872
Oil on canvas
15.3x21.9 in.
Private collection

Louise Abbéma | Henriette Rosine Bernard, aka Sarah Bernhardt, Actrice française (Paris 1844-Paris 1923).
Abbéma specialized in oil portraits and watercolors, and many of her works showed the influence from Chinese and Japanese painters, as well as contemporary masters such as Édouard Manet.

Louise Abbéma (30 October 1853 – 29 July 1927) was a French painter, sculptor, and designer of the Belle Époque.
#OTD #FrenchArt #FemaleArtist #SelfPortraits

Hans Thuar | Alberi da frutta in fiore (Fruit trees in flower) (1911)

Hans Thuar | Raddampfer unter Brücke (Cycle steamer under the bridge) (1923)

Hans Thuar | Arbeiter am Hochofen (Workers in the Furnace), 1922, Oil on paper, mounted on cardboard. 42.5 x 35 cm.

August Macke (3 January 1887-26 September 1914) | Portrait of Hans Thuar, 1903
Pencil and tempera on paper mounted on cardboard
37.5x29 cm
Kunstmuseum Bonn

Langensalza, German landscape and portrait painter, representative of Rhenish Expressionism.
Das Ungleiche Paar (the odd couple), 1922, Oil on cardboard, 47.5 × 38.5 cm. Kunstmuseum Bonn.
#ArtistBirthday #GermanArt #Expressionism

Ricardo Martínez | Black dog, 2003, oil on canvas, 80 x 100 cm.
#DogsInArt

Ricardo Martínez | Figura can Agua, 1963, oil on canvas, 17.75 x 19.75 in.

Ricardo Martínez | Mujer con paño blanco, oil on canvas

Ricardo Martínez | The Smoker, 2004, oil on canvas, 60 x 40 cm

Ricardo Martínez de Hoyos (28 October 1918 – 11 January 2009) was a Mexican painter noted for his figurative work on unreal atmospheres.
Untitled, 1956, oil on canvas, 59 x 35.5 in.
#OTD #ArtistBirthday #MexicanPainter

Lee Krasner | Self-Portrait, ca. 1930
oil on linen
76.5 x 63.8 cm. (30.06 x 25.06 in.)
The Jewish Museum, New York

Lee Krasner, “Imperative,” 1976, oil, charcoal and paper on canvas, 50 x 50 in., Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Victor Thaw, National Gallery of Art, DC

Lee Krasner | Milkweed, 1955
Oil, paper and canvas collage on canvas
84 × 59 × 1 1/2 in
213.4 × 149.9 × 3.8 cm
Gift of Seymour H. Knox, Jr., 1976
Albright-Knox Art Gallery

Lee Krasner | Burning Candles, 1955
Oil, paper, and canvas on linen
58 1/8 × 39 in
147.6 × 99.1 cm

Lee Krasner | Noon, 1947
Oil on linen
24 x 30 in.
The Jewish Museum

Lee Krasner (27 October 1908 - 19 June 1984) was a major figure in the American Abstract Expressionist movement and the wife of Jackson Pollock.
Self-portrait, 1929
Oil on canvas
30x32.125 in
Gift of Ida Mirsky Mann, 1988
© Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY

Elizabeth Nourse | Dans l'Église à Volendam (In The Church at Volendam), 1892
oil on canvas laid on board
127 x 160 cm. (50 x 63 in.)
private collection

Elizabeth Nourse | Fisher Girl of Picardy, 1889, oil on canvas, 46 3/4 x 32 1/4 in. (118.7 x 82.0 cm), Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Elizabeth Pilling, 1915.3.1

Elizabeth Nourse, Le frère et la soeur, Penmarc'h, ca. 1901, oil on canvas, 24 1/4 x 19 in. (61.6 x 48.2 cm.), Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Curtis G. Pepper II, 1991.170