Camargue
Tapestry from Aubusson, woven in the workshops Pinton. bolduc signed by the artist, No.
Bolduc signé de l’artiste, n°4/6.
1963.
Drawn to the large surfaces, under the influence of Untersteller at the École des Beaux-Arts, Hilaire carried out numerous mural paintings. Logically, from 1949 onward, together with many artists stimulated by Lurçat (he would be part of the A.P.C.T., the Association of Painter-cartoonists for Tapestry, alongside him), he created numerous cartoons (a few dozen), some of which were woven in Beauvais or at the Gobelins.
His figurative cubist style (which sometimes veers into abstraction) can be found in his tapestry cartoons: in ours, but also, for example, in the one made for the "Salon Fontainebleau" of the Paquebot France, "Sous-bois " (190 x 988 cm, weaving Pinton, reproduced in Armelle Bouchet Mazas, le paquebot France, Paris, 2006, p.169), where forms and colors are fragmented in a kaleidoscopic manner.
"Camargue" is reproduced in the binder "Tapisserie d'Aubusson" published by the Chambre de commerce et d'Industrie de Guéret in the early 1980s to illustrate the know-how of the Aubusson workshops.
Bibliography:
reproduced
Exhibition Cat. Hilaire, du trait à la lumière, Musée Départemental Georges de la Tour à Vic-sur-Seille, 2010.
