LURÇAT, JEAN (French, 1892-1966)

Mostly remembered as an innovator of modern tapestry, Lurçat was in fact dedicated to painting for the first half of his artistic career and it was not until 1937 that he concentrated on tapestry.
In his painting he assimilated the different contemporary movements of Cubism, Expressionism and Surrealism.
He moved to Paris in 1912 where he frequented the circles of Picasso and Marcoussis and underwent the influence of Cubism. Together with some friends he founded the art review ‘Les Feuilles de Mai’ in which essays of painting doctrine were published.
A trip to Berlin and Munich in 1920 had turned his eye to Expressionism. His extensive travels, to Spain in 1923 and to the Middle East, North Africa and the Sahara in 1924 to 1929, had another important and lasting influence on his work.


Public collections include:
Detroit Museum of Fine Arts, Detroit
Musée des Beaux-Arts, Grenoble
Musée Nationale d’Art Moderne, Paris
Museum of Chicago
Museum of Modern Art, New York
National Gallery, Washington DC
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia
Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam