Galatea
Aubusson tapestry woven by the Picaud workshop.
With its selvedge signed by the artist, no. 1/4.
1970.
Loewer created his first cartoon in 1953; his works were initially figurative before he shifted (like Matégot) towards abstraction, exclusively geometric in Loewer's case. He would go on to create more than 180 cartoons, most of them woven by his friend Raymond Picaud.
Woven in a single copy according to the catalogue raisonné, "Galathée" is representative of the artist's style around 1970, whose recurring plastic sign became the square, used in superimpositions.
Bibliography:
Claude Loewer, The Calculated Escape: Works from 1939 to 1993, Catalogue Raisonné of Tapestries from 1953 to 1974, Sylvio Acatos, Charlotte Hug, Walter Tschopp and Marc-Olivier Wahler, Artcatos, 1994, no. 120
