Milk vendor
Tapestry woven by the Moulin de Vauboyen workshop.
1965.
Foujita is one of a number of artists whose work was woven at Bièvres at the Moulin de Vauboyen (hence the mark MV woven into the tapestries), which was transformed by Pierre de Tartas into an arts centre in 1959 and devoted to figurative art. Many noteworthy names would pass through including Cocteau, Foujita, Erni, Volti … among others, who would produce much work, often monumental, as well as realisations in the applied arts (notably book illustrations).
Foujita created only a few cartoons for tapestries, all woven in Bièvres, at Pierre de Tartas.
The one for our tapestry (a watercolor, 147 x 157 cm) was sold on December 8, 2015, at Tajan, and another preparatory drawing was included in the Kimiyo Foujita estate (Cornette de Saint Cyr, October 28, 2013, lot 167c).
Representations of children become (even more) numerous in the post-war period: the same physical type with a high forehead, wide-set eyes, fine nose, full mouth, and sometimes engaging in small trades in an obsolete typology that would not have been rejected by Poulbot.
