Camargue
Aubusson tapestry woven in the Pinton workshops.
Bolduc signed by the artist, no. 4/6.
1963.
Drawn to large surfaces, under the influence of Untersteller at the School of Fine Arts, Hilaire executed numerous mural paintings. Logically, from 1949 onwards, at the same time as many artists, stimulated by Lurçat (he would be part of the APCT, Association of Tapestry Cartoon Painters alongside him), he produced numerous cartoons (a few dozen), some of which were woven in Beauvais or at the Gobelins.
We find his cubist figurative style (which sometimes borders on abstraction) in his tapestry cartoons: in ours, but also for example in the one made for the Fontainebleau Salon of the Paquebot France, “Sous-bois” (190 x 988 cm, Pinton weaving, reproduced in Armelle Bouchet Mazas, le paquebot France, Paris, 2006, p.169), where forms and colors are fragmented in a kaleidoscopic way.
“Camargue” is reproduced in the “Aubusson Tapestry” binder published by the Guéret Chamber of Commerce and Industry in the early 1980s to illustrate the know-how of the Aubusson workshops.
Bibliography:
Exhibition catalog, Hilaire, woven work, Verrière gallery, 1970 (reproduced)
Exhibition catalog Hilaire, from line to light, Georges de la Tour Departmental Museum in Vic-sur-Seille, 2010.
