Lucien COUTAUD (1904-1977)

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Lucien COUTAUD (1904-1977)
Jardins exotiques I, II, III ou Jardins tropicaux, ou Femmes fleurs Gouache on paper mounted on canvas. Signed lower left "Coutaud" 2,63 x 1,90 m In parallel to his career as a painter, Lucien Coutaud worked as a decorator for the theatre, dance and opera and was also a tapestry cartonnier in the context of the revival of Aubusson tapestry. In 1959, the David et Garnier gallery devoted a special exhibition to him, essentially on the theme of flower-women, characters composed of pansies and irises, and in 1960, he painted the cartoons of three large tapestries intended to decorate the perimeter of the dance floor of the Fontainebleau salon of the First Class of the Paquebot "France". The three tapestries, the last ones of the artist, were woven by the Atelier Hamot in Aubusson (see illustration). Today, we present you the three preparatory cartoons, real size, the original tapestries being preserved in the Museum of Le Havre. In those, animated flowers metamorphose into a couple, dancing a fantastic ballet, the whole with a polychromy usual in the tapestry of those years and proper to the palette of the artist.
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