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Helena Anderson Son art danse comme Salomé: Often considered a quintessentially “feminine” artist, Marie Laurencin (1883–1956) is best known for painting dreamy pastel-hued portraits and landscapes. During the past thirty years, however, she has become a contentious figure in feminist art history. While some scholars argue that her feminine style reflects a simplistic portrayal of women that panders to the male viewer, others find more radical interpretations of her work. I propose that Laurencin’s style, like Colette’s in literature, presents a unique visual language that embodies the jouissance of women’s expression and experience, and reading her oeuvre as exemplary of écriture/peinture feminine allows the contemporary viewer to see the subversive potential of her feminine style of portraiture.
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