Vera Cruz
Aubusson tapestry woven in the Simone André workshop.
With label signed by the artist.
Circa 1955.
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L'oiseau de rêve (the dream bird)
Aubusson tapestry woven in the Tabard workshop. With signed label. 1966. -
La femme fleur (flower lady)
At the beginning of the 1980’s , Bezombes returned to tapestry with “Bally” (see Audap-Mirabaud auction 19.11.12, lot n° 8) and this cartoon (see also what is doubtless the original drawing in the Pillon auction 4.12.2005 n° 245), both are particularly dreamlike and strongly influenced by graphic art and illustration techniques. “La femme fleur” (flower lady) is reproduced in the « Tapisserie d’Aubusson” file edited by the Guéret Chamber of Commerce and Industry in the beginning of the 1980’s to illustrate the technical mastery of the weavers of Aubusson.Aubusson tapestry woven in the Four workshop. N°EA/1. Circa 1980.Roger Bezombes was a proponent of monumental art from the beginning. He received numerous commissions for tapestries on behalf of the state which were woven first at the Gobelins and then at Aubusson, particularly with the Hamot workshop whose dyers were able to produce for him wools to match exactly the colours used for his cartons (which he painted himself to scale). In 1952-53, he produced a monumental set (300 m2) for the pavilion of the French colonies at the Cité Universitaire de Paris. He abandoned the weaving technique at the end of the 1950’s in favour of hangings made of assembled fabrics. -
Cap Canaveral (Cape Canaveral)
Aubusson tapestry woven by the Tabard workshop. With signed label, n°2/6. Circa 1970. -
Sumatra
Aubusson tapestry woven by the Four workshop. With signed label, n°EA. Circa 1960. -
Coq papillon (cock butterfly)
Aubusson tapestry woven in the Picaud workshop. With label signed by the artist's widow. Circa 1960. -
Sérénade à la lune (moon serenade)
Aubusson tapestry woven by the Braquenié workshop. N°IV/VI. 1952. -
Marché aux chameaux (camel market)
In a similar vein to Toffoli, Raymond Poulet criss-crossed the world and his travels provided the themes that inspired his work ; the oriental inspiration has few precursors among the world of the peintre-cartonniers other than Bezombes.Aubusson tapestry produced by Jean Laurent. 1980. -
Amazonie (Amazonia)
Aubusson tapestry woven by the Hamot workshop. With signed label. 1962. Jean Picart le Doux is one of the foremost figures in the renaissance of the art of tapestry. His earliest contributions to the field date back to 1943 when he designed cartoons for the passenger ship “la Marseillaise”. A close associate of Lurçat, whose theories he would adopt (limited palette, numbered cartoons...), he was a founding member of the A.P.C.T. (Association des Peintres-cartonniers de Tapisserie), and soon after, a teacher at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs. The state gave him several commissions most of them at the Aubusson workshop, and some at the Gobelins : the most spectacular of these being for the University of Caen, the Theatre in Le Mans, the passenger ship France or the Prefecture of the Creuse département ... In as much as Picart le Doux’s aesthetic is close to that of Lurçat, so also is his inspiration and his subject matter, although in a register which is more decorative than symbolic, where he brings together heavenly bodies (the sun, the moon, the stars...), the elements, nature (wheat, vines, fish, birds...), man, literary quotation ... Since « Orénoque » dating from 1956 (Bruzeau n°72), South America recurrs regularly in the work of Picart le Doux. Here “la huppe”, a vertical cartoon (Bruzeau n°97) is enlarged horizontally by the addition of the river peopled with turtles, fish ...in a highly effective decorative ensemble. Bibliography : Marthe Belle-Jouffray, Jean Picart le Doux, Publications filmées d’art et d’histoire, 1966, ill. n°5 Maurice Bruzeau, Jean Picart le Doux, Murs de soleil, Editions Cercle d’art, 1972, ill. n°129 Exhibition Catalogue, Jean Picart le Doux, tapisseries, Musée de Saint-Denis, 1976 Exhibition Catalogue Jean Picart le Doux, Musée de la Poste, 1980, n°14 ill. -
Double amitié (double friendship)
Aubusson tapestry woven in the Four workshop. With signed label, n°EA1. 1972.
