Carnival Butterflies
Aubusson tapestry woven by the Picaud workshop.
With its ribbon signed by the artist.
Circa 1970.
Michèle van Hout le Beau created numerous cartoons in the 1960s-70s, working with many 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 colors (very 1970s), on which foliage, characters, or stylized animals develop.
Our cartoon, with its acid hues, is also very characteristic of the artist's style; one can also observe, on a theme abundantly developed by Lurçat, the difference in treatment of butterflies: the subject is a pretext for colorful geometric evocations close to abstraction.
