Camargue
Aubusson tapestry woven in the Pinton workshops.
Label signed by the artist, No. 4/6.
1963.
Attracted by large surfaces, under the influence of Untersteller at the School of Fine Arts, Hilaire executed numerous mural paintings. Logically, he produced, from 1949, at the same time as many artists, stimulated by Lurçat (he will be part of the A.P.C.T., Association of Cartoonists-Tapestry Artists alongside him), many cartoons (several dozen), some of which were woven in Beauvais or at the Gobelins.
We find his figurative, cubist style (which sometimes borders on abstraction) in his tapestry cartoons: in ours, but also, for example, in the one created for the Salon Fontainebleau of the Paquebot France, "Undergrowth" (190 x 988 cm, Pinton weaving, reproduced in Armelle Bouchet Mazas, the Paquebot France, Paris, 2006, p.169), where shapes and colours are fragmented in a kaleidoscopic way.
“Camargue” is reproduced in the “Aubusson Tapestry” booklet published by the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Guéret in the early 80s to illustrate the know-how of the Aubusson workshops.
Bibliography:
Cat. Expo., Hilaire, woven work, Verrière gallery, 1970 (reproduced)
Cat. Expo. Hilaire, from trait to light, Georges de la Tour Departmental Museum in Vic-sur-Seille, 2010.
