Marie Laurencin (1885 – Paris – 1956). ”Autoportrait”. Circa 1909 Gouache on cardboard. 41 × 32,4 cm (16 ⅛ × 12 ¾ in.). Signed in pen and black ink lower right: Marie Laurencin. Lower left with brush in brown inscribed: 33. On the on the reverse on the laid down coloured paper a red label of Galerie Alfred Flechtheim, inscribed in pencil: B 3623. Marchesseau PP0194.– [3131] Provenance: Galerie Alfred Flechtheim, Dusseldorf (until 1917) / Hans Goltz, Munich (acquired at the auction of Cassirer 1917) / Arnold Blome, Bremen (1920s until at the latest 1972) / Galerie Rolf Ohse, Bremen / Private Collection, Oldenburg/Bremen (aquired 1986 at Ohse, thence by descent to the present owner) Literature and illustration: Auction catalogue: Galerie Flechtheim. Moderne Gemälde. Berlin, Paul Cassirer, und Hugo Helbing, Munich, 5.6.1917, cat. no. 157