Overview
Aubusson tapestry woven by the Legoueix workshop.
With its signed selvedge, no. 5/6.
Circa 1980.
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.
These "bird's-eye view" compositions are characteristic of the artist.
Bibliography:
Simon Chaye, Contemporary Tapestries, Editions Librairie des musées, 2014, ill. p.83
