JEAN LURCAT
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The French painter, ceramicist and tapestry designer Jean Lurçat was born on 1st July 1892 in Bruyères (Vogesen). He is regarded as the most important contemporary representative of tapestry. During the beginning of his artistic career, his work was influenced by impressionism, and later, cubism.

Jean Lurcat studied under the painters Prouve and Laffitte in Nancy, and subsequently attended the Ècole des Beaux-Arts and the artist Filippo Calarossi’s private art academy. In 1917 Jean Lurçat executed embroidered wall carpets in Stramin and during the interwar years was already a well-known painter. In 1933 Lurçat had his first tapisserie manufactured in Ausbusson. During World War Two, Jean Lurçat was actively involved in the French resistance to the German occupation.
Following the war, his aim was to take the "The tapisserie virus throughout the whole world". Over the following 20 years, he held large exhibitions of his tapestries, paintings, drawings and ceramics on all continents. In 1957, he began a series of monumental tapestries, the "Chant du monde" (Songs of the World). This ten-part work depicts a modern 20th century apocalypse and is now held in the Musée Jean Lurçat in Angers.
In 1959, the artist participated in the "documenta II" in Kassel and in 1962, he founded the International Centre for Old and New Tapestries, which organised the "International Tapisserie Biennale" in Lausanne. Jean Lurcat’s tapestries decorate numerous famous buildings, such as the UNO-Building in New York City and the Mercatorhalle in Duisburg, which contains the "The Tree and the Man" (1960) and "The Sun and the Sea" (1961). Jean Lurçat died on 6th January 1966 in St. Paul de Vence.

Some years after his death, the Jean Lurçat society was founded in Eppelborn (Saarland). In 2002 the society opened the Jean Lurçat-Museum, which contains 300 works, providing visitors with a broad overview of Lurçat’s artistic output.

![]() Goubely-Gatien manufacture Aubusson ![]() ![]() Artcurial - 20 october 2015 - Paris La soupe oil on canvas - 1936 Cm : 114 x 162 cm Inch : 44 7/8 x 63 3/4 Price realized : €39,000 ($44,070 USD) ![]() Artcurial - 20 october 2015 - Paris Le coq rouge 1947 Gouache on paper Cm : 144 x 92 cm - Inch : 56 5/8 x 36 1/4 in Price Realized : €9,750 ($11.017 USD) ![]() Tajan - 23 may 2013 - Paris Important vase balustre Earthenware, N. 23/25 H : Cm : 55 cm - Inch : 21 5/8 in Price Realized : €8,930 ($11,731 USD) ![]() Young woman in stylish striped blue and white outfit, holding a large red rose Textile Cm : 184 x 127 cm - Inch : 72 3/8 x 50 in Price Realized : £3,500 GBP ($5,425 USD) | ![]() ![]() ![]() Christie's - 14 october 2015 - London AN EIGHT- PANEL SCREEN, CIRCA 1955 comprising four two-fold panels, applied with tapestry attributed to Aubusson each panel: 90 in. (229 cm.) high; 27 ¼ in. (69 cm.) wide signed in weave Lurçat Price Realized : £18,750 ($28,631 USD) ![]() Tajan - 15 october 2005 - Paris Spectaculaire vase formant corps à double balustre Earthenware Cm : 29 x 47,7 cm - Inch : 11 3/8 x 18 3/4 in Price Realized : €12,750 ($18,600 USD) ![]() Sotheby's - 28 may 2015 - New York LES BATEAUX Signed Lurçat and dated 31 (lower right) Oil on canvas 25 3/4 by 36 in - 65.4 by 91.5 cm Painted in 1931 Price Realized : $10,000 USD ![]() Pillon - 14 december 2014 - Versailles FESTIN D'AUTOMNE, 1943 Tapisserie d'Aubusson signée, datée. Tissée par les ateliers TABARD. (Sans bolduc). 240 x 270 Price Realized : €8,500 ($10,540 USD) + fees | ![]() Gisèle Brevet workshop Aubusson ![]() ![]() Tajan - 26 February 2015 Très grand vase ovoïde Earthenware, N. 3/25 Cm : 89 x 0 x 0 x 41 cm Inch : 35 x 0 x 0 x 16 1/8 in Price realized : €11,480 USD ($15,528 USD) ![]() Tajan - 15 october 2005 - ParisVase poisson à décor de poissons stylisés animés de feuillages, intérieur noir. Signature manuscrite émaillée "Dessin J.Lurçat. Sant-Vicens. ZG" et n° illisible. (Un petit éclat). H . 21,8 cm - Long. 39 cm Price Realized : €4,340 ($6,331 USD) |