Jean Lurçat

Jean Lurçat

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Monograph

Structure type:: Monograph

Title:: Jean Lurçat

Subtitle:: Tapestries; 17.7. au 16.8.1970

Author:: Laurent, Pierre; Guillemin, Henri

Publication year:: 1969

Publisher:: [s.n.]

Place of publication:: [s.l.]

Measurements:: [30] p.

Description:: Art moderne et contemporain

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Title:: Biography of Jean Lurçat

Biography of Jean Lurgat 1892 July ıst, birth of Jean Lurcat in Bruyeres, Vosges; high school in Epinal; then Nancy University. 1912 Forsakes medical studies for painting. 1914 Enlisted in infantry. 1916-17 1919 1921 1923-25 Wounded, he is evacuated to Roanne. He has his mother execute his first canvas stitches tapestry an aquarelle. Discharged. Immediate departure for Geneva. Holiday in the Tessin with the musician Ferrucio Busoni, Jeanne Bucher, Rainer-Maria Rilke, Hermann Hesse. Sets and costumes of ’Celui qui reçoit des gifles’ by Andreiev, for the Pitoeff Company. Trips in Spain, North Africa, Sahara, Greece, Asia Minor. Those vast and denuded spaces impress him and will inspire him for a long time. He finds in cubism and surrealism answers to certain preoccupations. 1927 He has four canvas stitches tapestries executed for the living-room of Mr. P. David Weill and ’L’Orage’ for Mr. Georges Salles. 1928 Stays in Greece, Rome and New York. 1933 1936 1937 1939 yr’, Works in New York. First tapestry, ’L’Orage’ executed at Aubusson for Madame Cuttoli. Spain. First tapestry executed on high-warp loom at the ’Manufacture nationale des Gobelins': 'Les Illusions d’Icare’. First meeting with the weaver Francois Tabard of Aubusson. Second tapestry ’Forêts’ executed at the Gobelins. He then sees in Angers the wall hanging ?’L’Apocalypse’ and decides to devote his life to tapestry. m September, the war breaks out. With Gromaire and Dubreuil, he settles in Aubusson where he was commissioned by the Department of National Education to oversee a number of requested tapestries. He has the new technique definitely perfected; counted shades, big stitches, strong weaving. 1940 Weaving of about 20 tapestries in the Tabard and Goubely factories. Co-operation with Andre Derain and Raoul Dufy.

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