À la découverte de Jean Bauret, éditeur de tissus d’artistes, de Kandinsky à Geneviève Asse

Abstract

Discovering Jean Bauret, manufacturer of artists-designed fabrics, from Kandinsky to Geneviève Asse. This study is devoted to Jean Bauret (1907-1990), connaisseur of contemporary art and textile manufacturer. Although the bringing together of artists of different contemporary art trends in order to design fabrics for interior decoration (furniture, curtains...) is greatly to his credit, he remains unrecognized. From 1943 to 1948, his firm produced fabrics patterned by Vassili Kandinsky, Henri Michaux, Serge Poliakoff, Geneviève Asse, Paule Vézelav, André Lanskoy — among others — , the designs of which were traced by his wife, Hélène Bauret. He ensured their promotion by organizing exhibitions in his own parisian flat. In the difficult post-war period, Jean Bauret’s industrial art fabrics achieved a great success with a french élite accustomed to fashion and living art. In spite of this success, Jean Bauret retired from business at the end of the fifties to indulge in his passion : writing.