Rapace (bird of prey)
Tapestry woven by the CRECIT workshop, in Tournai.
With label.
1995.
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Edmond Dubrunfaut peut-être considéré comme le grand rénovateur de la tapisserie belge au XXe siècle. Il fonde un atelier de tissage à Tournai dès 1942, puis crée en 1947 le Centre de Rénovation de la Tapisserie de Tournai . Il fournira pour différents ateliers belges (Chaudoir, de Wit,...) de nombreux cartons destinés notamment à orner les ambassades belges à travers le Monde. Par ailleurs, Dubrunfaut, de 1947 à 1978, enseigne l’art monumental à l’Académie des Beaux-Arts de Mons, puis, en 1979, participe à la création de la Fondation de la tapisserie, des arts du tissu et des arts muraux de Tournai, véritable conservatoire de la tapisserie en Wallonie. Son style, figuratif, usant de forts contrastes de couleurs souvent, est très inspiré par les animaux et la nature (comme Perrot par exemple, l'artiste a un fort tropisme pour l'ornithologie). Tapisserie tardive de Dubrunfaut, à la veine décorative toujours renouvelée, tissée au CRECIT à Tournai, où l’artiste a donné de nombreux cartons à tisser. Bibliography : Exhibition catalogue Dubrunfaut et la renaissance de la tapisserie, tableaux, dessins, peintures, Musée des Beaux-Arts de Mons, 1982-1983.
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Paysage (landscape)
Aubusson tapestry woven by the Legoueix workshop. N°4/6. Circa 1970. It was in 1953 that Jean Picart le Doux proposed to Chaye to become his assistant and encouraged him to design tapestry cartoons : he would produce numerous bucolic cartoons, but also views of Normandy (Mont Saint Michel, Honfleur, regattas,…) whence he came. These compositions “as the bird flies” are typical of the artist. Here, the fields beneath their wings, in a geometrical evocation of the countryside in summer, are associated with a magnified (or metaphorical) representation of the crops planted therein (wheat, corn,…). -
Le village d'Eze (the village of Eze)
In a decorative post-cubist style redolent of Toffoli, Raymond Poulet here interprets one of the most spectacular locations on the côteAubusson tapestry woven by the Jean Laurent workshop. N°3/6. Circa 1980. -
Le secret (the secret)
Having established himself in the 1930's in the region around Nantes, Morin worked as an artist in advertising as well as painting and engraving, at first in a figurative style and then evolving towards abstraction from 1954 onwards. His interest in monumental art is revealed in his use of mosaic (particularly within the framework of the government 1% subsidy for art in works produced for schools of the greater Nantes area) but also in tapestry. As early as 1952 he received the first commissions for religious-themed works which would be produced by the Plasse le Caisne workshop (who also worked for Manessier, Le Moal...), before collaborating with Pierre Daquin's Atelier de Saint-Cyr, a major player in the French movement for la Nouvelle Tapisserie, and having several pieces exhibited at the Demeure gallery. From then onwards, until 1982, other designs would be produced by the workshops of the Ecole Regionale des Beaux-Arts in Angers, and later by the artist's own daughter who was herself a weaver. In his collaboration with Daquin (as in the latter's own works) the medium became one with the message, the technical mastery was absolute : the surfaces are animated and vibrant with a complexity of different textures and stitches... and Morin's poetic designs with their delicately symetrical signs, found an ideal expression. Bibliographie : Exhibition Catalogue Jorj Morin, tapisseries, gravures à l'eau-forte, et quelques stèles de mosaïques, Paris, galerie La Demeure, 1974, reproduced Exhibition catalogue Jorj Morin, tapisseries, peintures, gravures, mosaïques, Angers, Musée Jean Lurçat et de la tapisserie contemporaine, 1991-1992Tapestry woven by the Saint-Cyr workshop. With signed label, n°I/VI. 1971. -
Portrait
Aubusson tapestry woven by the Pinton workshop. With label, n°1/6. Circa 1980.Doubtless a tapestry woven from a work by Hélène Champaloux (with an X !), in a style reminiscent of posters of the 1970’s, featuring a face treated as if by solarization : a very rare subject for a tapestry! -
Soleil rouge (Red sun)
Aubusson tapestry woven in the Legoueix workshop. With signed label, n°1/6. Circa 1980.It was in 1953 that Jean Picart le Doux proposed to Chaye to become his assistant and encouraged him to design tapestry cartoons : he would produce numerous bucolic cartoons, but also views of Normandy (Mont Saint Michel, Honfleur, regattas,…) whence he came. A design which brings together two leitmotivs characteristic of Simon Chaye, a bouquet and a flock of birds, which here detach themselves from a background formed by the red sun.
