The Water Lilies
An Aubusson tapestry woven in the Pinton workshops for the Verrière gallery.
With its bolduc, n°4/6.
1968.
Drawn to the large surfaces, under the influence of Untersteller at the École des Beaux-Arts, Hilaire executed numerous mural paintings. Logically, from 1949 onward—alongside many other artists stimulated by Lurçat (he would take part with him in the A.P.C.T., Association des Peintres-Cartonniers de Tapisserie)—he produced numerous Cartoons (a few dozen), some of which were woven in Beauvais or at the Gobelins.
Hilaire made the subject his own—preempted by Monet—in his usual cubist style (tending toward abstraction), made of lines and circular forms in an exalted blue-and-green chromatic palette. His passion for horticulture, which he had intended for himself when young, here echoes Monet's at Giverny.
Bibliographie :
Cat. Expo., Hilaire, oeuvre tissé, galerie Verrière, 1970, ill.
Cat. Expo. Hilaire, du trait à la lumière, Musée Départemental Georges de la Tour à Vic-sur-Seille, 2010.
