Composition
Tapestry, probably from Aubusson.
Circa 1970.
Although Lanskoy's transition to abstraction began in the 1940s, his first cartoons date from the 1950s: they would therefore all be abstract. Initially woven in Aubusson by Picaud, he then gave most of his cartoons to Maurice Chassagne (whose workshop mark and selvedge never appear on the tapestries he wove), but he was also woven at the National Manufactories, and "Consolation" adorned the ocean liner "France", proof of the artist's place in the history of French art.
A major figure in lyrical abstraction, championed by the leading galleries of the time (Jeanne Bucher, Louis Carré), Lanskoy, whose exuberant painting sometimes blossoms into a riot of color (pinks, mauves, oranges… regularly feature), manages to dispense with his characteristic impasto when it comes to woven canvases. Similarly, the lyricism of the forms often appears more restrained.
A major figure in lyrical abstraction, championed by the leading galleries of the time (Jeanne Bucher, Louis Carré), Lanskoy, whose exuberant painting sometimes blossoms into a riot of color (pinks, mauves, oranges… regularly feature), manages to dispense with his characteristic impasto when it comes to woven canvases. Similarly, the lyricism of the forms often appears more restrained.
