MARIE LAURENCIN (FRENCH 1883-1956)
Project de tapisserie III
oil over pencil on board
45 x 49 cm (17 3/4 x 19 1/4 in)

The present work was one of four designs for chair covers that Laurencin completed to decorate the Paris dining room of Eddie Wassermann. In 1935 Marie Laurencin also painted a portrait of Wassermann.

Provenance:
Eddie Wassermann, Paris (commissioned from the artist)
Sale: Sotheby's London, 30 March 1977, lot 124b
Sale: Sotheby's New York, 18 October 1985, lot 58
Purchased at the above sale by the present owner

Literature:
Daniel Marchesseau, Marie Laurencin, Catalogue raisonné de l'oeuvre peint, Paris, 1999, p. 74, no. 63, illustrated