Article No: 78J / 2870

Origin: Aubusson-France

Period: 20th century

Provenance: Private Collection

Composition: Wool and coton

Dimension: 2.27 L x 1.55 H

Tapestry by Jean Lurçat "The blue goat".

Edited by François Tabard in Aubusson.

Draw N ° 1.

Created in 1869, the Tabard workshop, initially specialized in upholstering furniture on old models, will transform this industry in Aubusson, first of all under the leadership of Léon Tabard, at the end of the 19th century, who created a customers abroad and manages to seize aesthetic trends, then especially with his son François who will contribute to the renewal of the tapestry, in particular thanks to the intense collaboration with Jean Lurçat, from 1937. When it closed in 1983, the Tabard workshop is undoubtedly one of the most famous contemporary tapestry workshops.

Biography :

Jean Lurçat is a French painter, ceramist and designer of tapestry.

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

After studying natural sciences, he decided to give up his medical career and left for Paris. There he attended the School of Fine Arts, then entered the Colarossi Academy, rue de la Grande-Chaumière, where he became a pupil of the engraver Bernard Naudin. The following year, he founded the review "Les feuilles de mai", in which Bourdelle, Elie Faure, Vildrac, Rilke collaborated ... His first tapestries were executed in point on canvas (1915-1932). It was in 1933 that his first works were produced on a low-rail loom, in Aubusson's studio for L'Orage, in high-rail at the Gobelins for Les Illusions d'Icare.

In 1937, he discovered the Apocalypse d'Angers tapestry: for him it was an aesthetic and technical revelation. He thus created cardboard in 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 weaver becomes purely mechanical.

The 1940 war steered her towards committed subjects: Es la Verdad (1942) and Liberté (1943, according to Eluard's poem) were woven clandestinely in Aubusson. Then he worked on monumental works for churches (Assy, 1947, Tapestry of the Apocalypse) as well as for public buildings (wine museum in Beaune, 1947).

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