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Lucien COUTAUD (French, 1904-1977) Orpheus and the Muses Tapestry

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Description

Artist: Lucien Coutaud (French, 1904- 1977).

Title: Orphée et les muses (Orpheus and the Muses).

Date: 1942.

Medium: Hand-woven wool tapestry.

Dimensions: Approximately 104 inches W x 96 H.

Markings: Signed and dated "Coutaud 1942" (lower right); It was woven by the Pinton workshop in Felletin and published by the Compagnie des Arts Francais, directed by Jacques Adnet. It bears the Pinton mark in the lower left corner.

This monumental work translates Coutaud’s "surrealist-poetic" style into a textile masterpiece. The composition features a central, lyre-playing Orpheus surrounded by the Muses, rendered with the artist’s signature elongated figures and dreamlike, mythological atmosphere.

Orphée et les muses (Orpheus and the Muses), is a significant example of the mid-century revival of French textile art led by the visionary Lucien Coutaud.
Lucien Coutaud was a prolific French painter, engraver, and stage designer known for his "Eroticomagie" – a personal blend of Surrealism, mythology, and metaphysical dreamscapes. Born in Meynes, he moved to Paris in 1924 and became a central figure in the cultural scene, befriending luminaries like Pablo Picasso, Jean-Paul Sartre, and Jacques Prevert.