The silver river
Aubusson tapestry woven in the Hamot workshops after a cartoon by the artist.
With its ribbon signed by the artist.
1965.
It was in 1953 that Jean Picart le Doux offered Chaye to become his assistant and encouraged him to create tapestry cartoons: he then produced many bucolic cartoons, but also views of Normandy (Mont Saint Michel, Honfleur, regattas,…), from where he originated.
Classic cartoon in the naturalist vein of the artist, specializing in enclosures, hedges and other riverbanks, animated by animals.
Bibliography :
Simon Chaye contemporary tapestries, Editions Librairie des musées, 2014, ill. p.32
