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Exhibition at the Musée départemental de la tapisserie, Aubusson, from June 21 to November 15, 2010.
The life of this ambitious woman with an instinctive love of the avant-garde unfolds like a novel. Nothing predestined Marie Bordes, born in Tulle in 1879 to a father who worked in the lemonade trade, to become the "catalyst of modern art" respected by collectors, gallery owners and museum curators the world over. Thanks to her bold ideas and through her Myrbor gallery, the greatest artists of her time turned their attention to the art of tapestry, starting with Rouault, Picasso and Le Corbusier. Through her work, Marie Cuttoli played a key role in the development of modernist decor, and also contributed significantly to the revival of the Aubusson workshops in the 1930s. Wife of the mayor of Philippeville, Paul Cuttoli, whose name she kept, it was with the eminent professor Henri Laugier that she spent fifty years of a life marked by passion for love, art collecting and patronage.
• Size: 20.5 x 25.5 cm
• 140 pages
• 200 color and black & white illustrations
• Hardcover
• ISBN: 978-2-9155-4230-1
Text in French only