Melinjana
Tapestry woven in the atelier de la Tuilière.
With label.
Circa 1970.
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After having established himself at the Gobelins, Daniel Drouin moved to Venasque. He designed numerous tapestries woven on a high-warp loom. The variety of the materials used, his propensity for abstraction and the fact that the artist wove his own designs conformed to certain preoccupations of the “Nouvelle Tapisserie” movement of the time, without however escaping from the 2 dimensional nature of the artform.
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Byzance (Byzantium)
Toffoli produced a large number of tapestries in collaboration with the Robert Four workshop from 1976 onwards, designing several hundred cartoons. In them we find post-cubist transparent effects which are characteristic of the artist, as indeed are the subjects treated. Thus Toffoli’s tapestries do not differ from his painting : here the dome of Hagia Sophia and the Bosphorus transport the observer elsewhere.Aubusson tapestry woven by the Four workshop. With label, n°3/6. Circa 1980. -
Horizon bleu (blue horizon)
Tapestry woven by the Atelier 3 workshop for the Attali gallery. With label, n°1/6. 1976.A protagonist of geometric abstraction and, as such, championed by the Denise René gallery, a major promoter of abstract tapestry (‘Distances’, was woven in 1973, one of the last cartoons to be woven by Tabard for the gallery), Morisson stands out for his compositions in bands chromatically harmonised in gradations. This is the aesthetic that prevails in our tapestry; although the A3 studio has been best known for weaving lyrical abstracts (Alechinsky, Arthus-Bertrand, Miotte...), which are more conducive to technical side-steps, the spectrum of its creations is actually very broad : Cathelin, Malel, Lindström, Druillet.... or, geometrical too, Mortensen. -
Marchande d'illusions (the dream vendor)
Elie Grekoff, whose aesthetic is similar to that of Lurçat, designed over 300 cartons “The dream vendor” is typical of a vein characteristic of Grekoff where melancholic children consider each other, as in a scene on a stage, redolent of an illustration for a folk tale.Aubusson tapestry woven by the Pinton workshop. With label. Circa 1955. -
Bouquet d'octobre (october bouquet)
Aubusson tapestry woven in the Legoueix workshop. With label, n°5/6. 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. The theme of the bouquet is omnipresent in Chaye’s work ; it allows him seasonal or chromatic associations of great decorative value.
