after Raoul DUFY

Dufy has always demonstrated for the decorative arts and artisanal techniques a genuine vocation: illustration of books, ceramics,.. and textile: under the ’aegis of Paul Poiret, he first creates decorative patterns intended for the ’printing of fabrics, before collaborating with the Lyonnaise silk house Bianchini-Férier. Then came the commissions destined for the Beauvais manufactory (the furniture set « Paris » ), to Marie Cuttoli, the cartoons woven at Aubusson during the war (« the beautiful summer »), the collaboration with the Louis Carré gallery thereafter: a role, if not eminent, in the Renaissance of Tapestry, in any case, a prolonged effort in the medium. In the 1960s still, the National Manufactures will deem the weaving of tapestries after earlier paintings by the artist pertinent.

Dufy, at the end of the 1920s, creates in Antibes for the villa « l’Altana » d’Arthur Weisweiller a series of four decorative panels: they reuse certain motifs already used for Bianchini-Férier fabrics, with this offset between rings and colors that have become characteristic of the artist. The elements of this décor will serve as models to be woven, in a fragmentary manner and on a smaller scale (and with differences in detail), for Pierre de Tartas at the Vauboyen mill.