Chimie (chemistry)
Aubusson tapestry woven in the Pinton workshop for the Verrière gallery.
With signed label, n°1/6.
Circa 1970.
With a taste for the large-scale, influenced by Untersteller at the Ecole des Beaux Arts, Hilaire undertook numerous mural paintings. In the same vein, beginning in 1949, along with a number of other artists stimulated by Lurçat, (he would join the latter at the A.P.C.T. Association des Peintres-Cartonniers de Tapisserie) he designed a number of cartoons some of which were woven at Beauvais or at Les Gobelins.
Hilaire's style occasionally comes close to abstraction, no doubt particularly when he has been asked to evoke a science. In 1974 he imagined another, notably different, tapestry on the same subject for the University of Toulouse (
https://www.univ-tlse3.fr/upsart/oeuvre6_565774.html).
Bibliography :
Exhibition catalogue Hilaire, œuvre tissé, galerie Verrière, 1970
Exhibition catalogue, du trait à la lumière, Musée Départemental Georges de la Tour at Vic-sur-Seille, 2010.
