Jean Picart Le Doux, Still life with pheasant, Color lithograph Signed and numbered 48/250

Jean Picart Le Doux
Still life with pheasant
Color lithograph
Signed and numbered 48/250
Dry stamp of the Roland Gérard Gallery

Size: 42.5 x 59.5 cm
Frame size: 52 x 73 cm

Jean Picart Le Doux (1902-1982)
Son of Charles himself a painter and illustrator, he devoted himself since 1933 to graphic arts and advertising. In 1943, he was published by the Association of Painters-Cartoniers, La Vigne. Soon after, he joined Lurcat who worked in Aubusson and became known. He received numerous orders for tapestries, among others, for the Compagnie Transatlantique, several faculties such as in Caen, Toulpuse, Metz, Lille and Nancy, the Frankfurt Opera, the NATO Palace. Twelve of his tapestries were acquired by the French State and five cartoons were executed by the Manufacture Nationale de Gobelins.

Apart from his work as a cartoonist, he executed wall decorations, had a great activity in the field of graphic art and illustration. He made many posters, created card games, lithographs, illustrations, including the bestiary of Guillaume Appolinaire.
Finally, he also tried his hand at the art of ceramics. He exhibited in the greatest European capitals but also in Asia and the United States.
Knight of the Legion of Honor, Knight of the Order of Arts and Letters, Professor at the School of Decorative Arts, he participated in the revival of French tapestry in the 20th century.
His compositions are balanced, ordered, serene and often rely on geometric patterns. He thus shows a spirit quite close to that of the 17th century. Several museums conserve his works including the Museums of Modern Art of the City of Paris, that of Warsaw, the Austrian Museum of Applied Arts, the Kultusministerium in Stuttgart, the Museum of Troy, the Museum of the University of Kansas and the Smithsonian in Washington.

Ref: 2M201RLZNH