Sienna sky

 

 

 

Aubusson tapestry woven by the Pinton workshop.
No. 4/6.
Circa 1960.

 

 

 

Fumeron created his first cartoons (he would go on to create more than 500) in the 1940s, collaborating with the Pinton workshops, then receiving numerous commissions from the French government, before participating in the decoration of the ocean liner "France". Initially figurative, and influenced by Lurçat, he moved towards abstraction, before returning to a colorful and realistic figurative style from the 1980s onwards.

 

This cardboard plays on a play on words: "earth" becomes Sienna sky to allow the artist, on a gradient ochre background ("Sienna earth"), to produce his birds and his sun-circle, in his characteristic decorative style.