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Jean Lurçat
The Great Fear, Circa 1954
Author:
Jean LurçatBio:
Epinal, França, 1892-Saint-Paul-de-Vence, França ,1966Title:
The Great FearDate:
Circa 1954Medium:
Tapeçaria AubussonDimensions:
304 x 635,5 x 0,5 cmCredit line:
Doação Governo do Estado de São Paulo, 1954Object type:
TapeçariaInventory number:
MASP.00159Photography credits:
João Musa
The tapestry The Great Fear is dated no later than 1954, the year when a major exhibition dedicated to the artist was held at the Masp. This show, the most comprehensive of his career, was opened by its curator, Germain Bazin, who was also director at the Louvre. This is also the date of the work’s entry in the Masp Collection.
— Unknown authorship, 1998
Source: Luiz Marques (org.), Catalogue of the Museu de Arte de São Paulo Assis Chateaubriand, São Paulo: MASP, 1998. (new edition, 2008).