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JEAN LURÇAT La forteresse gardée.
Oil on canvas, 1934. 654x1003mm; 25 3/4x39 1/2 inches. Signed and dated in oil, lower right recto. Signed and inscribed "New York" in oil, verso.
Provenance: Sold Christie's, New York, May 15, 1980, lot 65 to the current owner, private collection, New York.
Published: Denizeau, L'Œuvre peint de Jean Lurçat: Catalogue raisonné, 1910-1965, page 400, number 1934-6 (illustrated).
Lurçat (1892-1966) was a French artist best known for his revival of tapestry art. He was an important and successful painter for over twenty years and frequented the same artistic circles as Pablo Picasso and Louis Marcoussis before delving into textile arts in the late 193os. He traveled extensively through Europe, North Africa and the Middle East, deriving much inspiration from cultural exposure. Though Lurçat is celebrated for reviving tapestries as an art form, he experimented with many other art forms as well, such as book illustration, engraving and ceramics.
