François FAUREAU

The career of François Faureau is quite unique. Born in Aubusson, he attended the ENAD, then under the direction of Marius Martin who already promotes thick weaving and counted tones that Lurçat will take up again. It is in this way that he participated in the ENAD stand at the International Exhibition of Decorative Arts in 1925 as a painter-cartoonist with the tapestry "Solitude, verdure" or the screen "Canards", which oscillate between a classicizing style and the influence of Cubism. He will subsequently have his own workshop, but his work will remain confidential and far removed from the protagonists of the "Renaissance of Tapestry".

Back in Aubusson in 1962, after a long absence, Faureau devoted all his energy to Tapestry, as a cartoonist and weaver. His aesthetic is then less radical than in the 1920s, and the traditional themes: we feel the influence of Lurçat, as well as Perrot.