Galatea
Aubusson tapestry woven by the Picaud workshop.
With its ribbon signed by the artist, No. 1/4.
Loewer created his first cartoon in 1953; his works were initially figurative before he turned (like Matégot) towards abstraction, exclusively geometric in Loewer's case. He composed more than 180 cartoons, most of which were woven by his friend Raymond Picaud.
Woven as a single copy according to the critical catalogue, « Galathea » is representative of the artist's style around 1970, whose recurring plastic sign becomes the square, used in superimpositions.
Bibliography:
Claude Loewer, Calculated Evasion: Works from 1939 to 1993, Critical Catalogue of Tapestries from 1953 to 1974, Sylvio Acatos, Charlotte Hug, Walter Tschopp and Marc-Olivier Wahler, Artcatos, 1994, No. 120
