Jean Picart Le Doux, Art Deco French Modernist Handmade Aubusson Gobelin Tapestry Jean Picart Le Doux, c.1950's

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Jean Picart Le Doux, French (1902 - 1982)
"Au Rendez Vous Des Oiseaux"
Larger handmade wool Aubusson tapisserie
Produced by … more Jean Picart Le Doux, French (1902 - 1982)
"Au Rendez Vous Des Oiseaux"
Larger handmade wool Aubusson tapisserie
Produced by Maison M. Berthaut Aubusson Atelier, France. Signed Lower left corner woven with firm's monogram and lower right with artists full name.
Bears stitched label attached en verso.
Original documents included with the lot.
Measures 71-1/2" x 50".

Jean Picart Le Doux, born in Paris in 1902 and died in 1982, was a French painter and painter-cartonnier the revival of contemporary flat weave tapestry. He is the son of the painter Charles Picart Le Doux (1881-1959). His first tapestry dating from 1943 after winning the Grand Prix of the theater poster exhibition in the imaging. He met Jean Lurcat and, and Marc Saint-Saëns,and together they founded the Association of painters cardboard tapestry in 1947. In 1950, he comes up with the idea for ​​the Alliance Graphique Internationale, during the meeting with exhibitors of an exhibition of their work in Basel, Switzerland along with two other French designers Jean Jacques Colin and Nathan, and two Swiss graphic designers, Fritz Buhler and Donald Brown. AGI is officially founded November 22, 1952 and Picart Le Doux will be its first president.
Picart Le Doux was a French artist noted for his role in the revival of contemporary hand woven Aubusson tapestry. Picart Le Doux's first tapestry cartoon was a diptych entitled The Four Seasons. Made in 1943 and hand woven in 1945 at the Pinton workshops in Aubusson and was intended for the ocean liner La Marseillaise. He worked mainly with the Ateliers Berthaut and Hamot in Aubusson and produced some cartoons for the Manufacture nationale des Gobelins. His style is heavily influenced by Art Deco and French Modernism. He also worked as an illustrator and did Illustrations in the deluxe edition The veins of the Earth by Jean Cocteau Death of the Eagle, Paul Eric The Child and the Enchantments, illustration of the book presentation of this lyrical fantasy into two parts by Colette and music by Maurice Ravel, French edition of Broadcasting. The Bestiary, or procession of Orpheus by Guillaume Apollinaire was illustrated with color lithographs on behalf of Les Bibliophiles de France (1962). Prints the logo of the sower to the Larousse publishing house used between 1955 and 1970, models of twenty-three Precancels stamps of France, issued between 1983 and 19881. Lithographs Splendor marine The hare and the tortoise for the Fables of La Fontaine ed. Jaspard, Polus and Co. Place de la Concorde. Tableware First Class Air France, by Jean Picart le Doux. Dishes used until 2008 on aircraft Air France (Business Class, First Class). (Source: Air France, "Air France, sky objects," Michel Fraile, Editions Ouest-France 2003)
influential and world famous tapestry designer - Jean Picart Le Doux was influenced by the Surrealist movement in the 1930s and 40s and produced a series of paintings inspired by Rene Magritte and others. He met painters such as Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Paul Cezanne and Renoir; He participated in several expositions with Raoul Dufy, Marcoussis, Jean Lurcat, Jean Cocteau, Laglenne and others. He is buried in the Père-Lachaise cemetery less