Pastoral Concert
Tapestry with petit point.
Circa 1965.
“It will now be understood that after having founded a painting on the love of tapestry, it was relatively easy for me, and very tempting, to build a tapestry that is faithful to my painting” the artist will say in the exhibition catalog of the Galerie Verrière from 1970. It was not until 1961 that he began to create cartoons (more than fifty), both for the high-warp tapestry (in Aubusson, but also at the Mobilier National, sometimes with the help of Pierre Baudouin), but also for the technique of the petit point. We find in these cartoons the very audacious palette of the artist made of primary colors or here, based on a very raw pink, with a narration scattered between the main concert and the hunting scene, in the background.
Provenance :
Elmina Auger Collection
Bibliography :
Cat. Expo. Lapicque Tapestries, Villand & Galanis gallery, 1964-1965
Cat. Expo.Lapicque, Lyon, Verrière Gallery, 1970
