Sheaf
Aubusson tapestry woven by the Legoueix workshop.
No. 4/6.
1985.
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.
These "bird's-eye view" compositions are characteristic of the artist; here, the overflown fields, a very summery and geometrized landscape, are, by magnifying effect (or metaphor), associated with the plants (wheat, corn, ...) that compose them.
Bibliography :
Simon Chaye contemporary tapestries, Editions Librairie des musées, 2014, ill. p.80
