The white blackbird
Tapestry woven in Aubusson by the Tabard workshop.
With its label signed by the artist.
Circa 1965.
Having become a painter-cartoonist late in life, Henri Ilhe nevertheless designed, from 1964 onwards, a considerable woven work (more than 120 cartoons, all woven at Tabard) with an amiable style, made up of birds or butterflies frolicking in shrubs with knotted branches.
By representing a bird as rare as a five-legged sheep, Ilhe makes no ornithological pretensions, he simply wants to be the illustrator of a Nature made up of singularities.
