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PAULE MARROT made her debut at NATURAL CURIOSITIES this season! French textile artist,painter, engraver, teacher. Paule Marrot's work was celebrated at NATURAL CURIOSITIES with the introduction of wonderfully large reproductions of her fabric design sketches and patterns. Paule Marrot's life in art was influenced by Impressionist Auguste Renoir and Fauvist Raoul Dufy. Billy Baldwin and Jacqueline Kennedy American style makers both- loved Marrot's fabrics.
Natural Curiosities recently acquired the beautiful textile archives of.. Paule Marrot (1902-1987). Early in her career, Marrot shifted her emphasis from painting to textiles to create expressive patterns from the 1920s through the 1950s. Marrot’s bold use of flowers, color and patterns reflect a compositionally modernist style classically associated with the Art Deco movement. Marrot’s artistic influences include the expressive writings of Marcel Proust, as evident in her work Du coté de chez Swann, based on Proust’s book In Search of Lost Time
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All the Marrot works are large most 42" x 54" making the series captivating and joyous. I loved seeing them en masse. It would be hard to choose just one.
& in detail
“You paint with your heart the flowers of the fields,
love, youth, the seasons, everything that is wonderful in life,”
Andre Arbus
Several years ago Brunschwig and Fils introduced a PAULE MARROT Collection. Marrot designed the B&F selected prints in the 30's, 40's and 50's in Paris. In 1945 Marrot brought her French collection to America. Jacqueline Kennedy designed a living room around Paule's LES TULIPES COTTON PRINT. I must search out my design books for a picture of this room
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images above & below from
Style Court here
Do peruse the works on the NATURAL CURIOSITIES site & see the color and impact the Marrot collection makes. My photographs- are a real injustice to Madame-but I was in a MAD RUSH. This was the highlight of Market for me. NATURAL CURIOSITIES always takes a modern approach to their art. By taking many images from the past and presenting them on a large scale- they completely change the message of a photograph or print. Last market I purchased several of their original antique prints & my friend and business partner purchased two LARGE pieces from their OCEANA Seaweed Collection
here MORE ABOUT PAULE
AN AESTHETE'S LAMENT'S MARROT take
here NATURAL CURIOSITIES BLOG
here Hayden-Harnett Paule Marrot Editions
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