Cambodian dancers
Tapestry from Aubusson woven by the Picaud workshop.
With its bolduc from the Verrière gallery, n°1/4.
c. 1965.
Little known today, Maurice Ferréol's contribution in the 1960s to figurative tapestry was truly remarkable. He established himself as a kind of popular image-maker, where the use of pure colors allowed him to intensify—so to speak—drawings of the figures that were, even, childlike.
What do these flamboyantly dressed, masked figures have to do with Cambodia? They are merely a pretext for a profusion of colors and motifs, in Ferréol's highly distinctive style.
