Jacqueline de la Baume Dürrbach
Born
Jacqueline de la Baume[1]

Jacqueline de la Baume Dürrbach is a French textile artist. She is best known for having co-created the tapestry of Pablo Picasso's Guernica that has hung at the United Nations since 1985.[2]

Early life and education

Born Jaqueline de la Baume, she studied drawing and sculpture at the Académie Julian, Paris. There, she met husband René Dürrbach, who she married around 1949.[1][3] In 1949 she undertook an apprenticeship in tapestry with Beaudounet in Paris, who was a master of Aubusson tapestry. She dedicated herself entirely to tapestry, making contact with contemporary painters such as Albert Gleizes, Herbin, Léger, Villon and, through their widows, Delaunay and Van Doesburg.[4]

Career

In 1950 de la Baume Dürrbach had her first exhibitions of her tapestries in Paris.[4]

In 1948 she collaborated with Pablo Picasso to create a woven tapestry representing his painting Les Demoiselles d'Avignon.[5] In 1951 they collaborated again, this time to create a tapestry of his 1920 work Pierrot and Harlequin.[5]

In 1955 Picasso, Jaqueline and her husband René Dürrbach worked together to create a tapestry version of Picasso's anti-war painting Guernica.[6][7][8] They also jointly created a 3.50 x 7.10 metre gouache painting as a study for the Guernica tapestry.[8]

In 1957 she created a tapestry of Picasso's Deux Harlequins painting.[6][9]

Collections

Her collaboration with the painter Albert Gleizes is held in the permanent collection of the Denver Art Museum.[10] One of three copies of the Guernica tapestry she made in collaboration with Picasso is included in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art, Gunma, Japan.[11]

References

  1. 1 2 Elites françaises (in French). Revue editée par La Société d'édition et de publication "Les Elites françaises,". 1949.
  2. ↑ "'Guernica' Antiwar Tapestry Is Rehung at U.N.", New York Times, 2022
  3. ↑ Brooke, Peter (January 2001). Albert Gleizes: For and Against the Twentieth Century. Yale University Press. ISBN 978-0-300-08964-6.
  4. 1 2 "Guernica" (PDF). musee-unterlinden.com/.
  5. 1 2 Sessums, Martha (14 September 2020). "Les Demoiselles d'Avignon: Jacqueline Dürrbach's Translation on Tapestry". France Today.
  6. 1 2 Marstine, Janet (10 February 2017). Critical Practice: Artists, Museums, Ethics. Taylor & Francis. p. 127. ISBN 978-1-351-98681-6.
  7. ↑ "Tapestry replica of Picasso's anti-war masterpiece Guernica removed from United Nations headquarters after 35 years". www.theartnewspaper.com.
  8. 1 2 "Guernica – Ikone des Friedens: Pablo Picasso, Jacqueline de la Baume Dürrbach und 33 zeitgenössische Positionen für den Frieden". meinbezirk.at (in German).
  9. ↑ Wells, K. L. H. (January 2019). Weaving Modernism: Postwar Tapestry Between Paris and New York. Yale University Press. ISBN 978-0-300-23259-2.
  10. ↑ "Composition with Three Elements | Denver Art Museum". www.denverartmuseum.org.
  11. ↑ "Tapestry replica of Guernica conserved at the Museum of Modern Art, Gunma, Japan | Repensar Guernica". guernica.museoreinasofia.es.
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