Fleurs et feuilles (flowers and leaves)
Aubusson tapestry woven by the Braquenié workshop.
With label.
Circa 1960.
Multi-talented artist (poet, lyricist, painter and even antiques dealer,…) Saint-Martin, who assisted Lurçat at the beginning of the 1950’s, started designing his own cartoons in 1956 and they were woven in the Braquenié workshop. His is a dream-like, stylised and dramatised world : here, symbols of order and discipline (the still life composition, the wrought iron balustrade…) contrast with the unsettling, unfettered profusion of the branches on each side.
