The sun of Apremont
Aubusson tapestry woven by the Picaud workshop.
With its signed ribbon, No. 1/4.
Circa 1965.
Maurice André settled in Aubusson for the duration of the second world war. A founding member of the group “Tapisserie de France” and a member of the A.P.C.T. (Association des Peintres-Cartonniers de Tapisserie), he developed a personal style, different from that of Lurçat, characterised by rigorous, cubist-influenced flat areas of colour, often using a limited palette ; he received large-scale public commissions for the Council of Europe in Strasbourg (“L’Europe unie dans le Travail et la Paix”) or for the French pavilion at the Brussels Exhibition in 1958 (“La Technique moderne au service de l’Homme”). Gradually (as with Wogensky and Prassinos,...) his style evolved towards more abstraction, firstly lyrical and then more and more geometric, in a way very similar to Matégot.
In the mid-60s, André's style is close to Matégot's, made up of lyrical assemblages of triangular shapes, in a homogeneous chromatic range, and scattered with striations, spots, speckles,… often black, where different techniques specific to tapestry are used to accentuate the effect of volume and depth.
