The sun of Apremont
Aubusson tapestry woven by the Picaud workshop.
With its signed label, No. 1/4.
Circa 1965.
Maurice André stayed in Aubusson throughout the war. Founder of the cooperative group 'Tapisserie de France', and member of the A.P.C.T. (Association of Tapestry Cartoonists), he developed a personal aesthetic, far from Lurçat, made of rigorous cubist flat areas, in a often purified chromatic range, and received ambitious public commissions, for the Council of Europe in Strasbourg ('A United Europe in Work and Peace'), or the French Pavilion for the 1958 Exhibition in Brussels ('Modern Technology in the Service of Man'). Naturally (and like Wogensky, Prassinos,…), he then evolved towards abstraction, first rather lyrical then in a style increasingly geometric, in a trajectory very close to that of 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.
