Still life
Gobelins tapestry woven by G. Bonnevialle.
With its label.
1930-1931 (based on a 1921 painting).
Artist with a classical training and an official career, Migonney spent many years in Algeria, which became his favourite subject. He also provided some cartoons to the National School of Decorative Art in Aubusson (alongside Véra, Valtat,…), whose stand at the International Exposition of Decorative Arts in 1925 included a screen adorned with one of his tapestries.
Our tapestry is a detail, woven posthumously, of a spectacular 1921 work (137 x 205 cm) by Migonney kept at the Brou Museum in Bourg-en-Bresse, « Still Life with Fruit ». We see all the details and nuances of which the Gobelins tapestry weavers are capable in the reproduction of a painting, effects against which Lurçat will soon confront.
Bibliography:
Cat. Expo. Tapestries 1925, Aubusson, Tapestry City, 2012
