Poet and painter Marie Laurencin was associated with modernist circles in Paris. Beginning in 1907, Laurencin was muse and companion to the famed poet and critic Guillaume Apollinaire (1880-1918) and was featured in many of his writings. She exhibited seven canvases in the revolutionary 1913 Armory Show in New York, a landmark exhibition in the history of Modern art, and she established herself as a leading society portraitist, book illustrator, and costume and textile designer.