Composition
Tapestry, probably from Aubusson.
Circa 1970.
If the transition to abstraction took place in Lanskoy's work from the 1940s onwards, his first cartoons date back to the 1950s: they were therefore all abstract. Initially woven in Aubusson by Picaud, he subsequently provided most of his cartoons to Maurice Chassagne (whose workshop mark or label never appeared on the tapestries he wove), but it was also woven at the Manufactures Nationales, and "Consolation" adorned the liner "France", a testament to the artist's place in the history of French art.
A major protagonist of lyrical abstraction, championed by the leading galleries of the time (Jeanne Bucher, Louis Carré), Lanskoy, whose exuberant painting sometimes blossomed into colorful fantasies (pinks, mauves, oranges... were regularly represented), managed to dispense with his characteristic impastos when it came to being woven. Similarly, the lyricism of the forms often appears more restrained.
A major protagonist of lyrical abstraction, championed by the leading galleries of the time (Jeanne Bucher, Louis Carré), Lanskoy, whose exuberant painting sometimes blossomed into colorful fantasies (pinks, mauves, oranges... were regularly represented), managed to dispense with his characteristic impastos when it came to being woven. Similarly, the lyricism of the forms often appears more restrained.
