Jean Lurcat Foliage for Tapestry Signed and Dedicated Lithograph

  

Commented, signed and dedicated in pencil. Tapestry project in the format 71 x 50 cm. Collection Léon Moussinac (wikipedia) Director ENSAD 1950 - 1959.

Jean Lurçat (1892 - 1966) was a French painter, ceramist, and tapestry designer, considered a pioneer of 20th-century tapestry. Firstly, he joined Victor Prouvé's workshop, then in 1912, he moved to Paris with his brother, the architect André Lurçat.

He then began an extremely enriching period: Académie de Colarossi, Atelier du graveur Bernard Naudin, meetings with collectors and artists. The artist's first canvases were executed by his mother, then by his wife Marthe Hennebert, before the factories took over. His career peaked with the revival of tapestry techniques: numbered cardboard, robust weaving with large stitches, and reduced palettes. Jean Lurçat also engaged in various exercises: costumes and sets for a show?; engravings for a clandestine erotic book, whose authorship confirmed posthumously turned out to be his. The admiration of collectors has now given him a good reputation in the art market.

If you have the opportunity to visit prestigious places around the world, you may come across his works. The Song of the World.

Composed of 10 tapestries, the tenth of which was completed after Jean Lurçat's death, remains the most significant project of his career. He lived and worked in the Lot, near St Céré, in the towers of St Laurent, which have become the Jean Lurçat Museum.