The water lilies
Aubusson tapestry woven in the Pinton workshops for the Verrière gallery.
With its label, No. 4/6.
1968.
Attracted by large surfaces, under the influence of Untersteller at the School of Fine Arts, Hilaire executed numerous wall paintings. Logically, he produced, from 1949, at the same time as many artists, stimulated by Lurçat (he will be part of the A.P.C.T., Association of Tapestry Cartoonists alongside him), numerous cartoons (several dozen), some of which were woven in Beauvais or at the Gobelins.
Hilaire appropriates the subject, preempted by Monet, in his usual cubist style (and tending towards abstraction), made up of lines and circular shapes with an exalted blue and green chromatic range. His passion for horticulture, to which he was destined in his youth, is here like an echo of Monet's at Giverny.
Bibliography:
Exhibition Cat., Hilaire, woven work, Verrière gallery, 1970, ill.
Exhibition Cat. Hilaire, from line to light, Georges de la Tour Departmental Museum in Vic-sur-Seille, 2010.
