Butterflies of Plenty
Aubusson tapestry woven by the Picaud workshop.
With its selvedge signed by the artist.
Circa 1970.
Michèle van Hout le Beau created numerous cartoons in the 1960s and 70s, working with many workshops in Aubusson, and receiving public commissions (she participated, along with others such as Soulages, Lagrange, and Alechinsky, in the decoration of Air France's transatlantic Boeing 707s). Her style often revolves around strident colors (very 1970s), on which stylized foliage, figures, or animals unfold.
Our cardboard, with its acidic hues, is also very characteristic of the artist's style; one can also observe, on a theme abundantly developed by Lurçat, the difference in the treatment of butterflies: the subject is a pretext for colorful geometric evocations close to abstraction.
