October Bouquet
Aubusson tapestry woven in the Legoueix workshop.
With its label, no. 5/6.
1974.
It was in 1953 that Jean Picart le Doux offered Chaye the opportunity to become his assistant and encouraged him to create tapestry cartoons: he then produced numerous bucolic cartoons, as well as views of Normandy (Mont Saint Michel, Honfleur, regattas,…), from where he originated.
The bouquet theme is omnipresent in Chaye; it allows him, in a stylized register, to make very decorative seasonal or chromatic associations.
Bibliography:
Simon Chaye contemporary tapestries, Editions Librairie des musées, 2014, ill. p.77
