Corot éditeur d'art Paris - Jean Lurçat The noisy rooster - Tapestry - 110 cm - 185 cm - Numbered and signed

Wall tapestry printed on wool by the Corot workshop, art publisher in Paris

With its ribbon present, numbered and hand-signed by the artist, the details of the ribbon and Corot are noteworthy.
Circa 1950.

Excellent condition except for minor, insignificant damage on one side, please check the images.

This tapestry is an essential testimony to the aesthetic revolution led by Jean Lurçat, the artist who, in the middle of the 20th century, restored the ancestral art of tapestry to its former glory, notably through his work with the Aubusson workshops.

The Rooster of the Night stands out for its composition, which possesses an immediate and joyful graphic force. The central figure, the rooster, is surrounded by powerful black lines, a stylistic signature that Lurçat developed to adapt his designs to the economy of weaving. The limited yet vibrant palette uses sunny colors—bright reds, flamboyant yellows, and oranges—that define the form against a dark or earthy background.

A Message of Manly Hope:
Beyond its aesthetic appeal, the Rooster of the Night is a symbol imbued with humanism. For Lurçat, this animal is the cosmic watchman, the one who, through its crowing, not only announces the day but compels the sun to rise. It embodies:

Unwavering Hope and Resilience in the face of the darkness of the world (a powerful message in the post-war context), Virility and Action, which Lurçat revered in nature and an allegory of France rising up and resisting (the rooster being its emblem and the artist was part of the resistance).

This Corot edition, produced with meticulous attention to quality to make the master's art more accessible, is a historical piece that brings a unique vitality and intellectual depth to any collector's home. It is a true ode to life, woven into the tradition of modern art.

His woven work testifies to a specifically decorative art of imagery, in a very personal symbolic iconography, cosmogonic (sun, planets, zodiac, 4 elements…), stylized plant, animal (goats, roosters, butterflies, chimeras…), stand out against a background without perspective (deliberately far removed from painting), and intended, in his most ambitious designs, to share a vision that is both poetic (he sometimes embellishes these tapestries with quotations) and philosophical (the major themes are addressed from the war onwards: freedom, resistance, fraternity, truth…)

Jean Lurçat associated with some of the world's greatest painters: Henri Matisse, Paul Cézanne and Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Victor Prouvé...


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