Lucien Coutaud Surrealist Etching

Item Details

Lucien Coutaud (French; 1904 – 1977)
Untitled (Surreal vehicles), mid 20th century
Etching on paper
Unsigned

Provenance
From the estate of Nick Bubash.

Painter and printmaker Lucien Coutaud is known for his Surrealist works that often feature elements of the human psyche, magic, metamorphosis, and anthropomorphic figures. After studying at the Beaux-Arts Academy in Nîmes under Armand Coussens, he moved to Paris in 1924, and continued his studies at the free academies of Montparnasse. Throughout the 1920s, Coutaud worked as an illustrator, and a costume and stage set designer before being enlisted into the military. Influenced by de Chirico, Max Ernst, and Paul Klee, Coutaud immersed himself in the local art circles and became friends with Picasso, Jean Blanzat, Fraigneau, Marc Bernard, Jean-Louis Barrault, Oscar Dominguez, Paul Eluard, Jacques Prévert, Boris Vian, Gilbert Lely, Jean Paul Sartre, Yves Tanguy, Félix Labisse, and other key figures of his time. His work has been collected and exhibited by multiple institutions including the Galerie des Modernes, the National Museum of Modern Art in Paris, the Departmental Museum of Tapestry in Aubusson, Nîmes Museum of Fine Arts, and the Musée Eugène-Boudin in Honfleur, among others.

Condition

- light toning to paper; print margins have been trimmed away from being pulled from a book; edge wear to paper; foxing and marks to verso.

Dimensions

Item #

ITMG241262