Jean Raoul Chaurand-Naurac

Jean Raoul Chaurand-Naurac was a painter, graphic artist and illustrator. He mostly worked as a designer of posters and advertising graphics. He created many travel advertisements, including some for the Pullman service. After completing his studies in Lyon and Paris, Chaurand-Naurac lived in phalanstères, which are socio-utopian production and living communities. His motifs were genre scenes with horses, but also landscapes, portraits and flowers, which he depicted in oil, pastel and watercolor. Initially, he was influenced by Cubism and Fauvism, and later strongly by the Italian Futurists.

In 1924, Chaurand-Naurac created a collection of ten color lithographs on the subject of the Olympic Games. Here, the following sports were illustrated in Art Deco style: Basque pelota, rowing, hurdling, tennis, soccer (male and female), rugby, swimming, hockey, shot put. Three of these correspond to the motifs submitted to the art competitions. At least some sports, however, have been depicted several times by this artist. Le joueur de Pelote Basque is said to have been produced specifically for the 1928 art competitions. The lithographs Golf and Polo also did not belong to the collection and cannot be correlated chronologically.