Laurencin

Even his partner, Marie Laurencin, ignored him.

On a fateful day in 1907, Pieret got up off the couch and told Marie Laurencin, a painter and Apollinaire’s partner, that he was going to the Louvre that afternoon.

Marie Laurencin figured that Pieret was going shopping.

A more serious look at reputation and male genius might have introduced a work by at least one female Cubist: perhaps Alice Bailly, or Marie Vassilieff, or Alice Halicka, or Marie Laurencin, or Jeanne Rij-Rousseau, or María Blanchard, or even Australia’s own Anne Dangar.

As a girl I was allowed to do things that were "pretty," but I hated Marie Laurencin.