Belles des mers (sea beauties)
Aubusson tapestry woven in the Legoueix workshop.
1953.
After the traditional completion of some mural paintings in the 1930’s, he then arrived in Aubusson in 1936, became closely associated with Picart le Doux in 1947 and then joined the A.P.C.T. (Association des Peintres-Cartonniers de Tapisserie). From then on he devoted himself to tapestry with zeal and designed 167 cartoons, at first figurative following on from Picart le Doux and Saint-Saëns, then, influenced by the scientific themes that he dealt with, tending more towards abstraction. In 1981, two years before his death, he donated his studio to the Musée départemental de la tapisserie in Aubusson.
A cartoon typical of Jullien’s early style, figurative and poetic, and close to Picart le Doux. The theme (even if here it is mixed with Hellenism : mermaids, masks, etc.) of the depths of the sea (shown by Cousteau since the 1940s) is a recurrent one among the cartoon painters: Picart le Doux, of course, but also Lurçat, Perrot, Millecamps….
Bibliography :
Exhibition catalogue Hommage à Louis-Marie Jullien, Aubusson, Musée départemental de la Tapisserie, 1983, n°25
