Word: cuttoli
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Paul Cuttoli, smart, svelte, energetic wife of France's Senator from Constantine, Algeria, began mixing art and philanthropy years ago when she imported wool from India, set her husband's impoverished constituents to weaving rugs. Few years after the War she grew interested in the plight of France's tapestry weavers. Flourishing when kings and noblemen wanted something ornamental to keep out the draughts which seeped through castle walls, their craft was dying in an age of steam heat and small apartments. What tapestry weaving needed, decided Mme Cuttoli, was a stiff shot...
Mistress of a popular Paris salon, Mme Cuttoli found it easy to reach her painters, hard to convince them that their fluid daubings could be fittingly reproduced in silk and wool. Her first convert, five years ago, was Georges Rouault, onetime apprentice in a stained-glass factory. But the painters were simple to manage compared to the weavers. Those sensible artisans, with six centuries of conventional design and solid, forthright colors behind them, threw up their hands in horror at Rouault's grotesque figures and great splashings of brick red and blatant blue. "Mais non!" cried they. "We will...
More than the French regard for "our friends in America." which M. Herriot noted in his introduction, caused Mme Cuttoli's 20th Century tapestries to be brought to the U. S. for their first public showing. No more than their 15th Century predecessors are they intended for the walls of the proletariat. Each square yard requires six to eight months' work; no design will be duplicated more than three times; prices will be fixed accordingly...
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