Butterfly bouquet
Tapestry woven in Aubusson by the Legoueix workshop.
With its ribbon signed by the artist, No. 4/6.
Circa 1980.
From illustration to tapestry, there is only one (big) step to take, let us remember that Dom Robert was an illuminator! It was precisely he, as well as Madeleine David, one of the co-directors of the La Demeure gallery, with whom she was close, who encouraged Jacqueline Duhême to focus on the medium: preceded by her reputation as an "imagier" (see bibliography), illustrating Prévert, Eluard or Druon, she devoted herself to tapestry from 1967 (she then followed the courses of Tourlière at the ENAD in Aubusson, and became a follower of the numbered cartoon) to 1981, La Demeure even dedicating a monographic exhibition to her in 1976.
Her universe, coming from medieval mille-fleurs, is not without recalling Dom Robert, but a Dom Robert on amphetamines, where Nature is lush, exotic, exuberant (cf. "Safari", "the bird of Paradise").
On a smaller scale, more polished too, our cartoon testifies to the colorful vitality of Duhême's inspiration.
Bibliography :
Cat. Expo. Jacqueline Duhême the imagier, Forney Library, 2019
