Jean Picart Le Doux, Still Life With Pheasant, Lithograph

Jean Picart Le Doux
Still life with pheasant
Color lithograph
Signed and numbered 48/250
Dry stamp from 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 has devoted himself to graphic arts and advertising since 1933. In 1943, he was published by the Association of Painters-Cartoners, La Vigne. Fear later he joined Lurcat who worked in Aubusson and made himself 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, and the NATO Palace. Twelve of his tapestries were acquired by the French State and five boxes were produced by the Manufacture Nationale de Gobelins. Apart from his work as a cardboard maker, he executed wall decorations and was very active in the field of graphic art and illustration. He made numerous posters, created card games, lithographs, illustrations, including the bestiary of Guillaume Appolinaire. Finally he also tried his hand at the art of ceramics. He held exhibitions in the largest 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. It thus shows a spirit quite close to that of the 17th century. Several Museums preserve 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 Troye Museum, the Museum of the University of Kansas and the Smithsonian in Washington.