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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

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