Painting women of Paris, Marie Laurencin occupied a unique place amongst the painters working in the beginning of this century.

Through her encounter with Guillaume Appolinaire, a poet, and her acquaintance with Georges Braque, Pablo Picasso and their circle, she was introduced to the Cubism and Fauvism movements and yet remained peripheral to these.
 She painted delicately simplified portraits of young girls in pastel colours and established herself with her original style of painting among the gifted talents of l'école de Paris.

With her early realistic sketches and the matured works of her later years, her career involved a more or less steady developement toward a synthesis of clear and delicate designs, mediated at all times by a concern for sensibility and lyricism.
 Except some still life of flowers and landscapes, she totally focused on portraits of women of Paris, trying to capture an eternal image of young girls playing with fawns. mares and dogs, applying delicately decorative and transparent touches.