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