Jacqueline de la Baume Dürrbach

Jacqueline de la Baume Dürrbach is a French textile artist. She is best known for having co-created the tapestry of Pablo Picasso's Guernica that hung at the United Nations for thirty-five years.

Jacqueline de la Baume Dürrbach
Born
Jacqueline de la Baume[1]

Early life and education

Born Jaqueline de la Baume, she studied drawing and sculpture at the Académie Julian, Paris. There, she met husband René Dürrbach, who she married around 1949.[1][2] 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, Herbin, Léger, Villon and, through their widows, Delaunay and Van Doesburg.[3]

Career

In 1950 de la Baume Dürrbach had her first exhibitions of her tapestries in Paris.[3]

In 1948 she collaborated with Pablo Picasso to create a woven tapestry representing his painting Les Demoiselles d'Avignon.[4] In 1951 they collaborated again, this time to create a tapestry of his 1920 work Pierrot and Harlequin.[4]

In 1955 Picasso, Jaqueline and her husband René Dürrbach worked together to create a tapestry version of Picasso's anti-war painting Guernica.[5][6][7] They also jointly created a 3.50 x 7.10 metre gouache painting as a study for the Guernica tapestry.[7]

In 1957 she created a tapestry of Picasso's Deux Harlequins painting.[5][8]

Collections

Her collaboration with the painter Albert Gleizes is held in the permanent collection of the Denver Art Museum.[9] 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.[10]

References
  1. Elites françaises (in French). Revue editée par La Société d'édition et de publication "Les Elites françaises,". 1949.
  2. Brooke, Peter (January 2001). Albert Gleizes: For and Against the Twentieth Century. Yale University Press. ISBN 978-0-300-08964-6.
  3. "Guernica" (PDF). musee-unterlinden.com/.
  4. Sessums, Martha (14 September 2020). "Les Demoiselles d'Avignon: Jacqueline Dürrbach's Translation on Tapestry". France Today.
  5. Marstine, Janet (10 February 2017). Critical Practice: Artists, Museums, Ethics. Taylor & Francis. p. 127. ISBN 978-1-351-98681-6.
  6. "Tapestry replica of Picasso's anti-war masterpiece Guernica removed from United Nations headquarters after 35 years". www.theartnewspaper.com.
  7. "Guernica – Ikone des Friedens: Pablo Picasso, Jacqueline de la Baume Dürrbach und 33 zeitgenössische Positionen für den Frieden". meinbezirk.at (in German).
  8. Wells, K. L. H. (January 2019). Weaving Modernism: Postwar Tapestry Between Paris and New York. Yale University Press. ISBN 978-0-300-23259-2.
  9. "Composition with Three Elements | Denver Art Museum". www.denverartmuseum.org.
  10. "Tapestry replica of Guernica conserved at the Museum of Modern Art, Gunma, Japan | Repensar Guernica". guernica.museoreinasofia.es.
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