Composition
Aubusson tapestry woven by the Rivière des Borderies workshop.
Circa 1950.
Close to Bertholle and Le Normand, with whom he created frescoes in the 1940s, Idoux produced his first cartoon in 1946 and joined the A.P.C.T. in 1951. His tapestries, with their harmoniously rhythmic geometric and optical resonances (this was just the beginning of the 1950s!), echo his work in the field of stained glass (such as at Notre-Dame de Royan, for example).
Although Idoux's journey in tapestry was meteoric (around twenty cartoons in a decade), he did reach an official peak with 'Jardin Magique' and 'Fée Mirabelle', woven for the first-class lounge of the SS 'France' ('Jardin Magique' is now preserved at the Saint-Nazaire Ecomuseum).
