Concert champêtre (Outdoor concert)
Needle-work tapestry.
Circa 1965.
« It is thus easy to understand that, having based my painting on my love of tapestry, it was relatively easy for me, and particularly tempting, to produce tapestries which were faithful to my painting” writes the artist in the exhibition catalogue for the 1970 show at the Galerie Verrière. It is not until 1961 that he started making designs (over 50) both for woven tapestries (at Aubusson, but also for the Mobilier National with, on occasion, the collaboration of Pierre Baudoin), but also those employing needlepoint.
The artist’s very audacious palette is immediately recognisable in these cartons, with their use of primary colours or, as here, revolving around a very vivid pink with a rather dislocated storyline between the concert in the foreground and the hunting scene in the distance.
Provenance :
Elmina Auger collection
Bibliography :
Exhibition catalogue, Lapicque tapisseries, Paris, galerie Villand & Galanis, 1964-1965
Exhibition catalogue, Lapicque, Lyons, Galerie Verrière 1970
