Jean Dunand
Le Retour des Chasseurs
1935
Jean Dunand was the greatest lacquer artist of the Art Deco period, if not of the entire 20th century.
Le Retour des Chasseurs was an important lacquer panel fitted into La Chasse, a mural created in 1935 by Dunand to adorn the smoking room in the legendary ocean liner Normandie. It´s luxurious Art Deco interior was unequalled in style, elegance and sophistication. It featured works of art which can be seen nowadays in foremost museums worldwide. These panels are an elegant sample of Dunand’s sophisticated lacquer technique: their extraordinary polychromy in red, green and gold, turned them into a rare illustration of modernity of Normandie which still stands today, with his “temple of lacquer” as an Art Deco icon.
