Exhibition review: Coco Chanel’s Roaring Twenties

Marie Laurencin, Portrait de Mademoiselle Chanel, 1923. Huile sur toile, 92 × 73 cm.

An oil painting by Marie Laurencin shows a pale woman with dark hair in a blue garment, reclining with a scarf and small dog, accompanied by animals and a bird, illustrating Chanel’s fraught relationship with portraiture.

“Les Années folles de Coco Chanel” (“Coco Chanel’s Roaring Twenties”) is at the Nouveau Musée National de Monaco through October 5

Exhibition review: Coco Chanel’s Roaring Twenties
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