Reference number :78J/ D334

Origin : France-Aubusson

Period : XXth century

Provenance :Private Collection

Composition: Wool and coton

Dimension: 1.90 L x 1.37 H

Jean Picart Le Doux, born January 31, 1902 in the 6th arrondissement of Paris and died May 7, 1982 in Venice, is a French painter and tapestry maker of the revival of contemporary tapestry.

He is the son of the painter Charles Picart Le Doux (1881-1959).

Raised by his grandparents in Paris, since the death of his mother when he was five years old. A student at the Lycée Condorcet, he abandoned his studies to devote himself to bookbinding at the age of 16. Without any specialized professional training, Jean Picart Le Doux started out in bookbinding and publishing, then turned to advertising and graphic arts and published his first works. His first tapestry cartoons date back to 1943 after winning the grand prize of the theater poster at the Salon de l'imagerie.

He is the general secretary of the magazine Plans4.

Before the war, working with Jean Lurçat on a project of covers for the magazine Harper's Bazaar, the latter pushed him to study tapestry. Between 1939 and 1945, he made his first cartoons without knowing the technique of tapestry that he learned in 1945.

With Jean Lurçat and Marc Saint-Saëns, they founded the Association of tapestry painters in 1947. Jean Lurçat is president and the latter two vice-presidents.

In 1950, Picart Le Doux met two French graphic designers, Jean Colin and Jacques Nathan, and two Swiss graphic designers, Fritz Bühler and Donald Brun, during an exhibition of their work in Basel. He then conceived the idea of an International Graphic Alliance (AGI). The AGI was officially founded on November 22, 1952, and Picart Le Doux became its first president.

Picart Le Doux is a great master of Aubusson tapestry, who produced more than four hundred original tapestries. Several of his works were selected for the decoration of the liner France, including the monumental tapestry Les Phases du temps in the first class smoking room.

He was a member of the board of directors of the Société Nationale des Beaux Arts in the Decorative Art section from 1975 to 1980.

He exhibited, among others, at the Château de Vascœuil, in Normandy in 1974. In Paris he exhibited in 1970 at the Forney Library, in 1980 at the Musée de La Poste, on the occasion of the issue of the postage stamp "Homage to Johann Sebastian Bach".

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