Birds
Aubusson tapestry woven by the Faureau workshop. Circa 1950.
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The career of François Faureau is quite unique. Born in Aubusson, he attended the ENAD courses, then under the direction of Marius Martin who already promotes thick weaving and counted tones that Lurçat will take up again. It is in this way that he participated in the ENAD stand at the International Exposition of Decorative Arts in 1925 as a cartoonist with the tapestry "Solitude, verdure" or the screen "Canards", which oscillate between a classicizing style and the influence of Cubism. He will subsequently have his own workshop, but his work will remain confidential and far removed from the protagonists of the "Tapestry Renaissance". Upon his return to Aubusson in 1962, after a long absence, Faureau devotes all his energy to tapestry, as a cartoonist and weaver. His aesthetic is then less radical than in the 1920s, and the traditional themes: one can feel the influence of Lurçat, as well as Perrot.
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The land of France does not lie
The career of François Faureau is quite unique. Born in Aubusson, he attended the ENAD, then under the direction of Marius Martin who already promoted thick weaving and counted tones that Lurçat would later adopt. It is in this way that he participated in the ENAD stand at the International Exposition of Decorative Arts in 1925 as a painter-cartoonist with the tapestry "Solitude, verdure" or the screen "Canards", which oscillate between a classicizing style and the influence of Cubism. He later had his own workshop, but his work remained confidential and distant from the protagonists of the "Renaissance of Tapestry". If the Aubusson workshops (like the National Manufactures) continued their activity under occupation, the woven realizations subject to the injunctions of Art-Marshal remain rare, although this traditional know-how may have responded to the values of the National Revolution. The famous formula pronounced from June 25, 1940, by Pétain (Emmanuel Berl being the pen), and become a Vichy leitmotif, exalting rurality, rooting, and, more prosaically, agriculture, is illustrated here in a literal and synthetic way: variety of work, vegetation, architectures, animals, ... flourishing under the aegis of the Vichy regime. Provenance: Régine Deforges Collection Bibliography: Cat. Expo. Tapestries 1925, Aubusson, Cité de la tapisserie, 2012Aubusson tapestry. 1943.
