Composition
Aubusson tapestry woven by the Caron workshop.
Circa 1970.
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L’oiseau de feu (the firebird)
Aubusson tapestry woven in the Pinton workshop. With signed label. 1963. 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. “L’oiseau de feu » is a rare example of the dynamic in works by Hilaire who has accustomed us to more static subjects like hothouses and forest scenes : his rather fragmentary and kaleidoscopic style is however admirably suited to conveying the idea of movement. Bibliography : Exhibition catalogue Hilaire, œuvre tissé, galerie Verrière, 1970, ill. Exhibition catalogue, du trait à la lumière, Musée Départemental Georges de la Tour, Vic-sur-Seille, 2010. -
Belle entente (nice relationship)
Tapestry woven in the DMD workshop, Tournai. With label. 1989. -
Double amitié (double friendship)
Aubusson tapestry woven in the Four workshop. With signed label, n°EA1. 1972. -
Oiseaux (birds)
Aubusson tapestry woven by the Simone André workshop. Circa 1950. -
Chardons aux papillons blancs (Thistles with white butterflies)
Aubusson tapestry woven by the Caron workshop. With signed label, n°EA. Circa 1970. -
Sérénade à la lune (moon serenade)
Aubusson tapestry woven by the Braquenié workshop. N°IV/VI. 1952. -
Kalinka
Aubusson tapestry woven in the Andraud workshop. With label, n°4/6. 1980.Established in the Creuse region of France, he started working on tapestries in 1965 with the Andraud workshop for whom he designed cartoons inspired by the local flora, in a decorative style which can be situated somewhere between that of Dom Robert and Maingonnat, a world away from his landscape paintings which were strongly influenced by the impressionists. The title of this piece, which will be evocative to lovers of folk-song, is the name (but in Russian !) of the subject illustrated : kalinka meaning guelder-rose. -
Composition
Aubusson tapestry woven in the Henry workshop. With signed label, n°1/1. 1984.
