Marie Cuttoli, collector, tapestry entrepreneur, and patron of the arts.
Through the portrait of Marie Cuttoli, a great patron of the collections of the National Museum of Modern Art, we will discover another activity of Picasso, the tapestry. Woman of taste, her knowledge and enthusiasm for sewing will lead her to refuse conformisms.
Summary
- >> Birth of a passion, modern art
- >> In Algeria, awareness of the strength of crafts, in Paris the attraction of Haute Couture
- >> A decisive encounter, Henri Laugier
- >> Contemporary tapestry, the challenge of its commitment to artists
- >> Friendship with Picasso
- >> Ancient traditions and avant-garde richness, Marie Cuttoli is now an inescapable personality of the world of art.
- >> During the war, a New York exile before a return for Antibes
- >> Organize the collection and make a first donation to the Museum of Modern Art of Paris
Why doesn't fashion follow, step by step, the discoveries and suggestions of our modern visual artists? Couldn't our interiors be like resonance chambers for all the concerns and aspirations of our times? [...] The existence of an "honest human being" should be one of them. For one's apartment, one's clothing, or one's choice of art objects and paintings.
Marie Cuttoli. Excerpt from an advertisement for Myrbor, Cahiers d’art, June 1926.