SHARING WITH ME

I don’t know if it happens to you but sometimes l am convinced an artist is a painter and suddenly discover that he was working more in in another media. I associated Jean Lurçat (1892-1966) with the cubist period but not neceassirly a cubist... Boats The Cock Square and in actual fact knew virtually nothing of his work. Walking home down the Avenue to Gobelins recently, this was perhaps the second if not third time I had seen a very enticing communication like a huge sun called « Au Seuil Bruit du Soleil » A rough translation could be « On the Threshold of the Sound of the Sun » . In French it intrigued me. What was Jean Lurçat doing at the Gobelins? I would soon found out. Si Srir Laroussi 1925 Tante Annie - 1920 Table with glasses - 1923 Still Life with musical instruments 1922 Ouled Naïl - 1925 Snake charmer - 1926 Strong Bather - 1931 Bathers at the sea 1932 He was born in Bruyères, Vosges. After his secondary education