Composition
Aubusson tapestry woven by the Picaud workshop.
Circa 1960.
Born in 1912, Farvèze is part of the second generation of cartoon-cartoonists, which flourished from the late 1950s, with Grékoff, Ferréol, Petit, Potin,…
Marked by his meeting with Gleizes and then by a stay in Senegal, which earned him prestigious public commissions, he was selected to participate in the 2nd Lausanne Biennale in 1965.
A highly colourful stylization characterizes this work; the absence of label, however, prevents any full understanding: we distinguish a few animal forms…. ?
