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Lurçat

[ lyr-sa ]

noun

  1. Jean [zhah, n], 1892–1966, French painter and tapestry designer.


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Theresa Ann Incampo and John Dillard Taylor are to be married Sept. 29 at Bar Lurcat, a restaurant in Minneapolis.

Entry allows a glimpse of the Artists’ Lobby and Jean Lurçat tapestry.

Called “Le Poète,” the work was created by the French artist Jean Lurçat as homage to the Paul Eluard poem, “Liberté.”

Lurçat’s roots were in painting, but he is best known for reviving tapestry-weaving in the 1900s.

This tapestry, produced by Lurçat in collaboration with the Tabard brothers, features a menagerie of highly stylized creatures, from a rooster to a hare to an elephant beetle.

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