Marguerite Marie Françoise Jacqueline Renom de la Baume Dürrbach (14 May 1920 – 14 March 1990) was a French textile artist. She is best known for having co-created the tapestry of

Pablo Picasso Pablo Ruiz Picasso (25 October 1881 – 8 April 1973) was a Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist and Scenic design, theatre designer who spent most of his adult life in France. One of the most influential artists of the 20th ce ...

's ''Guernica'' that has hung at the United Nations since 1985.

Early life and education

De la Baume Dürrbach was the daughter of Count Robert Renom de la Baume, the French ambassador to Spain and Switzerland during the

Second World War World War II or the Second World War, often abbreviated as WWII or WW2, was a world war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. It involved the vast majority of the world's countries—including all of the great powers—forming two opposin ...

. She studied drawing and sculpture at the

Académie Julian The Académie Julian () was a private art school for painting and sculpture founded in Paris, France, in 1867 by French painter and teacher Rodolphe Julian (1839–1907) that was active from 1868 through 1968. It remained famous for the number a ...

, Paris. There, she met husband René Dürrbach, who she married around 1949. In 1949, she undertook an apprenticeship in tapestry with Beaudounet in Paris, who was a master of Aubusson tapestry. She dedicated herself entirely to tapestry, making contact with contemporary painters such as

Albert Gleizes Albert Gleizes (; 8 December 1881 – 23 June 1953) was a French artist, theoretician, philosopher, a self-proclaimed founder of Cubism and an influence on the School of Paris. Albert Gleizes and Jean Metzinger wrote the first major treatise on ...

, Herbin, Léger, Villon and, through their widows, Delaunay and Van Doesburg.

Career

In 1950, de la Baume Dürrbach had her first exhibitions of her tapestries in Paris. In 1948, she collaborated with

to create a woven tapestry representing his painting ''

Les Demoiselles d'Avignon ''Les Demoiselles d'Avignon'' (''The Young Ladies of Avignon'', originally titled ''The Brothel of Avignon'') is a large oil painting created in 1907 by the Spanish artist Pablo Picasso. The work, part of the permanent collection of the Museum o ...

''. In 1951 they collaborated again, this time to create a tapestry of his 1920 work '' Pierrot and Harlequin''. In 1955, Picasso, Jaqueline and her husband René Dürrbach worked together to create a tapestry version of Picasso's anti-war painting ''Guernica''. They also jointly created a 3.50 x 7.10 metre gouache painting as a study for the ''Guernica'' tapestry. In 1957 she created a tapestry of Picasso's '' Deux Harlequins'' painting.

Collections

De la Baume's collaboration with the painter Albert Gleizes is held in the permanent collection of the

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, United States. One of three copies of the ''Guernica'' tapestry she made in collaboration with Picasso is included in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art, Gunma, Japan.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:De la Baume Durrbach, Jacqueline 20th-century French women artists French textile designers 20th-century women textile artists 20th-century textile artists 20th-century French artists Académie Julian alumni 1920 births 1990 deaths