Coq papillon (cock butterfly)
Aubusson tapestry woven in the Picaud workshop.
With label signed by the artist's widow.
Circa 1960.
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Composition
Tapestry woven by the artist. With signed label, and preparatory drawing. Circa 1980. -
Composition
Aubusson tapestry woven in the Four workshop. N°6/6. Circa 1980. -
Matin d'été (summer morning)
Aubusson tapestry woven in the Laurent workshop. With signed label, n°2/6. 1983. -
Composition
Aubusson tapestry woven in the Four workshop. N°EA2/2. Circa 1980. -
Composition aux oiseaux (composition with birds)
Aubusson tapestry woven in the Laurent workshop. N°5/6. Circa 1980. -
Plain-chant
Sautour-Gaillard had his first cartoon woven in 1971 by the Legoueix workshop (a collaboration which was to last), and from then on he designed many very large-scale projects of which the most spectacular was “Pour un certain idéal” a series of 17 tapestries dealing with the theme of Olympianism (property of the Musée de l’Olympisme in Lausanne). If at first close to lyrical abstraction, the artist produced in the 1990’s cartoons superimposing different decorative motifs, textures and figures whose unity originated in the woven texture itself. The graphic characters which figure here suggest calligraphy and are characteristic of this artist’s tapestries from 1973 – 74, using these same colours. Here is how, in reference to Music, he defined his work at the time : “From my earliest efforts, I chose to make work which would not be a synthesis of images but rather construed as the orchestration of an architecture of colours ... The sensation of an imperceptible rustling as when the careful listening to a concert becomes tapestry.” Bibliography : D. Cavelier, Jean-René Sautour-Gaillard, la déchirure, Lelivredart, 2013, ill. p.172-173Aubusson tapestry woven in the Legoueix workshop. With signed label, n°1/4. 1974. -
Mexicaine aux arums (mexican with arum lilies)
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 : travelling for inspiration, here he illustrates scenes observed during his travels in South America.Aubusson tapestry woven by the Four workshop. With label, n°1/6. Circa 1990. -
Belles des mers (sea beauties)
Aubusson tapestry woven in the Legoueix workshop. 1953. -
Composition
Aubusson tapestry woven by the Pinton workshop. With label. Circa 1965.
