Like Rumpelstiltskin, the wily dwarf in the Grimm brothers’ fairytale, Jean Lurçat had a knack for spinning straw into gold. When wheedled by Picasso in the Fifties as to why he was weaving his pictures in wool, Lurçat, the leading revivalist of tapestries among his contemporaries, chided the old Spanish goat by telling him: “One fiber of my wool is a thousand times more precious than a piece of... More >>>