Small wood

Aubusson tapestry woven by the Tabard workshop.
With its ribbon, signed by the artist.
Circa 1970.

Having become a painter-cartoonist late in life, Henri Ilhe nevertheless designed, from 1964, a very considerable woven work (more than 120 cartoons, all woven at Tabard) in a pleasant style, made up of birds or butterflies frolicking in shrubs with knotted branches.

“Little wood” is, in this respect, characteristic of Ilhe's bucolic inspiration.