Carnival Butterflies
Aubusson tapestry woven by the Picaud workshop.
With its label signed by the artist.
Circa 1970.
Michèle van Hout le Beau created numerous cartoons in the 1960s-1970s, working with several workshops in Aubusson, and obtaining public commissions (she participated, along with others, Soulages, Lagrange, Alechinsky,…, in the decoration of Air France's transatlantic Boeing 707s). Her writing often revolves around strident colours (very 1970s), on which foliage, stylized characters or animals develop.
Our cartoon, with its acid hues, is also very characteristic of the artist's style; one can also observe, on a theme extensively developed by Lurçat, the difference in treatment of butterflies: the subject is a pretext for coloured geometric evocations close to abstraction.
