Georgia Museum of Art focuses on Catalan-American artist Pierre Daura this spring
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Georgia Museum of Art focuses on Catalan-American artist Pierre Daura this spring
Pierre Daura (Catalan-American, 1896–1976), Untitled (Cordonnerie), ca. 1929. Oil on paper mounted on canvas. Georgia Museum of Art, University of Georgia; Gift of Martha Randolph Daura
GMOA 2003.331.



ATHENS, GA.- The Georgia Museum of Art at the University of Georgia presents two exhibitions of the work of Pierre Daura, “Pierre Daura (1896–1976): Picturing Attachments” and “Small Truths: Pierre Daura’s Life and Vision,” both running from Feb. 21 to Apr. 19, 2015.

“Picturing Attachments,” organized by Adelheid Gealt, former director of Indiana University Art Museum, focuses on Daura’s portraits of his family throughout his career. Inspired by events such as his marriage to Louise Heron Blair (an American), the birth of their daughter Martha, their life in St. Cirq-Lapopie, his service in the Spanish Civil War, his exile to the United States during World War II and Louise’s illness and death, Daura’s images of his family constitute a kind of visual autobiography. Martha in particular was one of his favorite subjects, from the time of her birth, when he sketched her daily, to her graduation from high school and her adulthood.

The exhibition opened at Indiana University Art Museum, and its tour will continue to the Daura Gallery at Lynchburg College (May 26–Aug. 1) and the Joel and Lila Harnett Museum of Art at the University of Richmond Museum (Aug. 19–Oct. 8). Organized by the Indiana University Art Museum in Bloomington, Ind., the exhibition was made possible through the generous support of the Daura Foundation and the IU Art Museum’s Arc Fund. Research was supported by the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, the Daura Foundation and IU’s New Frontiers grant program.

The Catalan-American artist attended the Academy of Fine Arts in Barcelona, studying under José Ruiz Blasco (Pablo Picasso’s father). Daura eventually moved to Paris to pursue his art career, where he worked in the studio of Emile Bernard and learned engraving under André Lambert. In 1922 and 1926, he presented at the Salon d’Automne. Later, he co-founded Cercle et Carré, an artists’ group that promoted geometric abstractions in opposition to Surrealism, but despite his experimentation with abstraction he returned to figurative work. In 1945, Daura and his family moved to Lynchburg, Va., Louise’s birthplace. There, Pierre became chairman of the art department at Lynchburg College and taught studio art at Randolph-Macon Woman’s College.

“Small Truths: Pierre Daura’s Life and Vision,” organized by Lynn Boland, the museum’s Pierre Daura Curator of European Art, draws its works from the Daura Center Collection, a gift from Martha. The exhibition helps round out the picture of Daura’s career, including some of his abstractions.

Laura Valeri, associate curator of European art at the Georgia Museum of Art and in-house curator of “Picturing Attachments,” said, “This exhibition spans Daura’s entire artistic career, which gives viewers a rare opportunity to examine closely the evolution of the relationship between his family life and his art production.”










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