Jean Lurçat - The Goat With The Stars - Tapestry / Screenprint By Corot, Paris

“The goat with the stars”
Stencil tapestry (print on canvas) signed "Lurçat" 1892-1966.
Corot Paris edition. Year 1950.

In Lurçat's bestiary, the goat, which flies over the terrestrial world with long strides, constitutes the motif of numerous tapestries. We can spot it by the titles that the artist gives them (ochre goat, blue goat, goat with stars), it is sometimes hidden under other words more loaded with meaning (the wolf and the black, the great fear... ).
A modern emblem of strength (of resistance to the enemy in the tapestries of the 1940s), the goat becomes the male image of increased energy.

Known for helping to revive the design and production of tapestries during the 20th century, French artist Jean Lurçat worked alongside some of the world's greatest painters while weaving his own artistic narrative into the fabric of history.
Lurçat met artists Henri Matisse, Paul Cézanne and Pierre-Auguste Renoir in Paris in his early twenties – when the Bruyères native found himself fully immersed in the French art world. He had studied at the Académie Colarossi and worked in the Studio of the sculptor Victor Prouvé, then produced paintings inspired by Fauvism. Lurçat first exhibited his tapestries in 1917.

Printed and lined cotton canvas, produced by Corot in the 1950s.

Dimensions: 194x123 cm
Condition : Traces of foxing and wear on the edges of the upper side lining. (photos on request).
On the black background, two main discolorations on the left side at the foot of the goat, at the level of the star as well as under the head of the goat. Thank you for detailing the photos.
Seen as a whole, it remains a very beautiful screen print.

Video available on request.