Let them live
Tapestry woven in Aubusson by the Atelier Tabard.
With its bolduc signed by the artist, No. 6/8.
Circa 1970.
Having become a painter-cartoonist late in life, Henri Ilhe nevertheless created, starting in 1964, a quite substantial woven work (more than 120 cartoons, all woven at Tabard) in a kindly style, made of birds or butterflies frolicking in shrubs with gnarled branches.
“Let them live” is, in this respect, characteristic of Ilhe’s bucolic inspiration.
