"Everybody called Gertrude Stein Gertrude, or at most Mademoiselle Gertrude, everybody called Picasso Pablo and Fernande Fernande and everybody called Guillaume Apollinaire Guillaume and Max Jacob Max but everybody called Marie Laurencin Marie Laurencin."

(Gertrude Stein)

Portrait of Apollinaire with Picasso, Fernande Olivier and Marie Laurencin. Gertrude Stein bought it. It was the first "painting, Marie Laurencin sold.

June 8, 1956 Dies in her apartment in Paris. She is buried in the cemetery Père-Lachaise according to her wishes, dressed in white with a rose in one hand and Apollinaire’s love letters by her heart."

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