The white blackbird
Aubusson tapestry woven in the workshop by the Atelier Tabard.
With its bolduc signed by the artist.
Circa 1965.
Having become a painter-cartoonist late in life, Henri Ilhe nonetheless designed, starting in 1964, a quite considerable woven work (more than 120 cartoons, all woven at Tabard) in a kindly style, made of birds or butterflies frolicking among shrubs with knotted branches.
By representing a bird as rare as a five-legged sheep, Ilhe makes no claim to ornithological accuracy; he simply intends to be the illustrator of a Nature made of singularities.
