View Of Saint-malo, Brittany, By Jean Picard Le Doux

Period: 1950 Style: Modern art Condition: Excellent Technique: Gouache on paper Other: Work signed lower right. Width: 50 cm Height: 65 cm Dimensions with the frame: 70 cm / 84 cm Shipping cost: 30 Euros Beautiful and large original gouache by the hand of Jean Picart le Doux. An incomparable vision of the corsair city, treated in stylized flat colors. It is all the talent of this multiple artist that is expressed here. The work is signed lower right. JEAN PICART LE DOUX 1902 - 1982 Painter Ceramist Designer Jean Picart Le Doux, born in Paris on January 31, 1902, received no specialized professional training: after a few courses in private academies, he made his debut in bookbinding and bookbinding. 'editing. In 1933 he gave up publishing for Graphic Arts and advertising. He exhibited his first works in 1935, at the Billiet-Vorms Gallery and until 1940, extending his activities in this area, participating in various events and obtaining, at the Salon de l'Imagerie, the 1st Prize for Theater Poster . The meeting in 1940 with Jean Lurcat was decisive for him: from then on he took a passionate interest in the renewal of tapestry without however renouncing the graphic arts, and in 1944 executed his first cartoons for Leleu (decoration of the liner the "La Marseillaise ", And, in 1946, took part in the great exhibition of the Museum of Modern Art. Apart from private exhibitions in Paris (Galerie de France, 1950) in Lausanne and Zurich, Jean Picart Le Doux took part in all presentations of groups in the provinces and abroad as well as at the Salons des Indépendants, d'Automne and Artists Decorators Vice President of the Association of Cartoners Painters, member of the Committee of the Society of Decorative Artists, of the Salon d 'Autumn, from the Union des Arts Plastiques and the Board of Directors of the Maison de la Pensée Française, Jean Picart Le Doux has received important orders for tapestries for the Paris Chamber of Commerce, the Compagnie générale transat lantique, the Messageries maritimes, the Salomon de Rothschild Foundation, the French Lycée in Lisbon. Some of his tapestries have already been acquired by the Museum of Modern Art, the Mobilier National, the Manufacture des Gobelins and one of them, the “Ceres” by the Polish State. Although, like all the cardboard makers and artists who take part, following Jean Lurçat, in the current renaissance of tapestry, scrupulously subject to the constraints of the traditional technique of the high eras, large point, limited number of pure and solid tones, essentially monumental optics, the personality of Jean Picart Le Doux, his tastes, his imagination, his sensitivity, more closely resemble his works to the "Nobles pastorales", to the poetic and soothing scenes of the "Seigneurial life" conceived and produced in the workshops on the banks of the Loire only to the admirable but fabulous bestiary of the Middle Ages. It seems that the artist, marked by his graphic research, has gained an exceptional sense of composition, of "layout", sometimes going as far as a certain linear stripping softened by the warmth of the woolly fiber and the harmonious chords of rare tones. The florets, the stylized herbs enliven the backgrounds curiously punctuated with white dots where, a sort of personal mark, almost always discreetly hides the grace of a familiar bird, This distinctive style admits, while preserving its essential elements, a great variety of themes. Unique characters: "Winter", "the marine god", "Harlequin" centered in the middle of an abundant decoration of bare trees, algae or foliage; some compositions give way to a more intellectual inspiration and it is “Cosmogony”, with its great Beaches of silence punctuated by the letter; they are sumptuous and dense still lifes: "Earthly foods", "Music" or "the French Garden", of a noble classicism, the fairy-like and architectural fantasy of "Paris", the unforgettable poetry of " Neiges ”or the joyful fluttering of the wings of this curtain with primitive graces and a melodious harmony“ the Birds fly away ”. SOURCES: FURNITURE AND DECORATION N ° 8 NOVEMBER 1954 Published by Les Tapis de Cogoli