Tapestry Screen Print Jean Picart Le Doux

Jean Picart Le Doux, Tribute to Pablo Neruda - Tapestry Screen Print. Signed: Jean Picart Le Doux at the bottom right. French poet, one of the main representatives of the surrealist movement. Jean Picart Le Doux France 1902; 1982: He began in bookbinding and publishing, then dedicated himself to advertising and graphic arts, publishing his first works in 1935. His first tapestry cartoons date from 1943 after winning the first prize for theatre posters at the Salon de l'Imagerie. Before the war, he worked with Jean Lurçat on a cover project for Harper's Bazaar, the latter encouraging him to study tapestry. Between 1939 and 1945, he created his first cartoons without knowing the technique of tapestry. Along with Jean Lurçat and Marc Saint-Saëns, they founded the Association of Painter-Cartoonists of Tapestries in 1947. Jean Lurçat was the president, and the other two were vice-presidents. He was a member of the Board of Directors of the Société Nationale des Beaux Arts in the Decorative Arts section from 1975 to 1980. Signed on the front at the bottom right. Reference bibliography: Marthe Belle-Jouffray, Jean Picart Le Doux, Filmed Publications of Art and History, coll. Works of Our Time, 1966. Maurice Bruzeau, Jean Picart le Doux Sun Walls, Art Circle, 1972. Léon Moussinac, Olivier Pinton, Jean Picart le Doux, Paris, Musée de la Poste, 1980, 56 p. Dimensions: 158x115 cm. Condition: good, with a few slight white spots in the black background.