Description

Article No: 78J / 2946

Origin: Aubusson-France

Period: 20th century

Provenance: Private Collection

Composition: Wool and cotton

Dimension: 2.85 L x 1.90 H

Carton nº 676 of 1949 which will become nº 1676

Goubely Weaving 1951 - 5th ed. of 5

Bolduc signed by S Lurçat

Similar tapestry :

see "Dialogue with Lurçat" - cat. ODAC Manche p. 64 (particular coll. in 1992)

Identifications provided by Mrs Anne Sauvonnet-Salaün, Member of the Association Jean Lurçat in Eppelborn (Germany), in collaboration with Galerie Jabert.

Biography :

Jean Lurçat is a French painter, ceramist and tapestry creator.

He mainly owes his notoriety to his works of tapestry of which he renovated in depth the language.

After studies in natural sciences, he decides to give up the medical career and leaves for Paris. There he attends the School of Fine Arts, then enters the Colarossi Academy, rue de la Grande-Chaumière, where he becomes the pupil of the engraver Bernard Naudin. The following year, he founds the magazine "Les feuilles de mai", in which Bourdelle, Elie Faure, Vildrac, Rilke collaborate... His first tapestries are carried out to the point on canvas (1915-1932). It is in 1933 that are realized his first works on a loom in low smooth, in the workshop of Aubusson for L'Orage, in high smooth in Gobelins for Les Illusions d'Icare.

In 1937, he discovered the hanging of the Apocalypse of Angers: it is, for him, an aesthetic and technical revelation. He thus creates the cardboard with colors no longer painted but numbered and limited in number, a technical revolution which was to lead to a commercial revolution; the execution time is thus reduced, but the work of the lissier becomes purely mechanical.

The war of 1940 directs it towards committed subjects: Es la verdad (1942) and Liberté (1943, after Eluard's poem) are woven clandestinely in Aubusson. Then he works on monumental works as well for the churches (Assy, 1947, Tapestry of the Apocalypse) as for public buildings (museum of the wine in Beaune, 1947).

It is in 1957 that begins in Aubusson the setting in the loom of this gigantic hanging, in ten panels, entitled The Song of the world. Eighty meters long, it illustrates man's anxieties and hopes in the atomic age, " L`Homme en gloire dans la paix " being the ultimate, optimistic and victorious response to the various aggressions represented essentially by The Man from Hiroshima.

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