Let them live
Tapestry woven in Aubusson by the Tabard workshop.
With its ribbon signed by the artist, No. 6/8.
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.
“Let them live” is, in this respect, characteristic of Ilhe's bucolic inspiration.
