The royal
Aubusson tapestry woven in the Simone André workshop.
With its bolduc signed.
Circa 1965.
Edmond Dubrunfaut can perhaps be considered the great renovator of Belgian tapestry in the 20th century. He founded a weaving studio in Tournai as early as 1942, then created in 1947 the Tournai Tapestry Renovation Centre in Tournai.
It will supply, for various Belgian workshops (Chaudoir, de Wit, …), numerous cartoons intended in particular to decorate Belgian embassies across the world. In addition, Dubrunfaut, from 1947 to 1978, taught monumental art at theAcademy of Fine Arts of Mons , then, in 1979, took part in the creation of the Foundation of Tapestry, Textile Arts and Wall Arts of Tournai, a veritable conservatory of tapestry in Wallonia. Its style, figurative and using strong contrasts of color, often inspired by animals and nature (as with Perrot, for example—the artist had a strong leaning toward ornithology).
The subject and the vivid blue ground are an echo of Perrot. Dubrunfaut’s characteristic features are its feather-leaves: the animal appropriates the vegetal.
