Woman Arranging Her Hair

Laurens was a pre-eminent Cubist sculpture and was closely associated with Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque in Paris at the beginning of the twentieth century. Laurens trained as a stonemason, immersing himself in the French traditions of stone carving. Woman Arranging Her Hair is a work of his maturity, carved nearly thirty years after he first concentrated on the female nude. The angles of the rounded body and exaggerated limbs depart from Classical ideals but create their own form of sculpture beauty.劳伦斯是一位杰出的立体主义雕塑家，于20世纪初在巴黎与巴勃罗·毕加索（Pablo Picasso）、乔治·布拉克（Georges Braque）交往密切。劳伦斯曾受训为石匠，全身心浸润于法国石雕传统之中。《梳理秀发的女子》（Woman Arranging Her Hair）是其成熟期作品，距他首次专注于女性裸体创作已近三十年。圆润躯体的轮廓与夸张的肢体造型背离古典美学理想，却塑造了独树一帜的雕塑美感。