Natalie Clifford Barney, Marie Laurencin, Eileen Gray
Born: Natalie Clifford Barney (1876), Marie Laurencin (1883)
Died: Eileen Gray (1976)
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31OctBorn 1876150th birthday
Natalie Clifford Barney
For sixty years her Paris salon was a meeting place for writers – and the centre of lesbian life in the city.
31OctBorn 1883143rd birthdayMarie Laurencin
The only woman among the early Cubists painted dreamy women in pastel – and loved both men and women.