Jacqueline de la Baume Dürrbach

French textile artist

Jacqueline de la Baume Dürrbach
Born	Marguerite Marie Françoise Jacqueline Renom de la Baume^[1] (1920-05-14)14 May 1920 7th arrondissement of Paris, France
Died	14 March 1990(1990-03-14) (aged 69) Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, Bouches-du-Rhône, France

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's Guernica that has hung at the United Nations since 1985.^[2]

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. She studied drawing and sculpture at the Académie Julian, Paris. There, she met husband René Dürrbach, who she married around 1949.^[3]^[4] 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.^[5]

Career

In 1950, de la Baume Dürrbach had her first exhibitions of her tapestries in Paris.^[5]

In 1948, she collaborated with Pablo Picasso to create a woven tapestry representing his painting Les Demoiselles d'Avignon.^[6] In 1951 they collaborated again, this time to create a tapestry of his 1920 work Pierrot and Harlequin.^[6]

In 1955, Picasso, Jaqueline and her husband René Dürrbach worked together to create a tapestry version of Picasso's anti-war painting Guernica.^[7]^[8]^[9] They also jointly created a 3.50 x 7.10 metre gouache painting as a study for the Guernica tapestry.^[9]

In 1957 she created a tapestry of Picasso's Deux Harlequins painting.^[7]^[10]

Collections

De la Baume's collaboration with the painter Albert Gleizes is held in the permanent collection of the Denver Art Museum, United States.^[11] 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.^[12]

References

^ "Fichier des personnes décédées". Institut National de la Statistique et des Etudes Economiques (Insee). Retrieved 16 February 2024.
^ "'Guernica' Antiwar Tapestry Is Rehung at U.N.", New York Times, 2022
^ Elites françaises (in French). Revue editée par La Société d'édition et de publication "Les Elites françaises,". 1949.
^ Brooke, Peter (January 2001). Albert Gleizes: For and Against the Twentieth Century. Yale University Press. ISBN 978-0-300-08964-6.
^ ^a ^b "Guernica" (PDF). musee-unterlinden.com/.
^ ^a ^b Sessums, Martha (14 September 2020). "Les Demoiselles d'Avignon: Jacqueline Dürrbach's Translation on Tapestry". France Today.
^ ^a ^b Marstine, Janet (10 February 2017). Critical Practice: Artists, Museums, Ethics. Taylor & Francis. p. 127. ISBN 978-1-351-98681-6.
^ "Tapestry replica of Picasso's anti-war masterpiece Guernica removed from United Nations headquarters after 35 years". www.theartnewspaper.com.
^ ^a ^b "Guernica – Ikone des Friedens: Pablo Picasso, Jacqueline de la Baume Dürrbach und 33 zeitgenössische Positionen für den Frieden". meinbezirk.at (in German).
^ Wells, K. L. H. (January 2019). Weaving Modernism: Postwar Tapestry Between Paris and New York. Yale University Press. ISBN 978-0-300-23259-2.
^ "Composition with Three Elements | Denver Art Museum". www.denverartmuseum.org.
^ "Tapestry replica of Guernica conserved at the Museum of Modern Art, Gunma, Japan | Repensar Guernica". guernica.museoreinasofia.es.