Claude IDOUX

Close to Bertholle and Le Normand, with whom he created frescoes in the 1940s, Idoux produced his first tapestry cartoon in 1946 and joined the APCT (Association for the Promotion of Tapestry in Culture) in 1951. His tapestries, with their harmoniously rhythmic geometric and optical resonances (this was only the early 1950s!), echo his work in stained glass (at Notre-Dame de Royan, for example).
While Idoux's career in tapestry was meteoric (around twenty cartoons in about ten years), it nevertheless reached an official high point with "Magic Garden" and "Mirabelle Fairy," woven for the first-class lounge of the ocean liner "France" ("Magic Garden" is now in the collection of the Saint-Nazaire Ecomuseum).