Butterfly bouquet
Aubusson tapestry woven at Aubusson by the Atelier Legoueix.
With its bolduc signed by the artist, n°4/6.
c. 1980.
From illustration to tapestry, there's only one (big) step to cross—let us remember that Dom Robert was an illuminator! It was precisely this, as well as Madeleine David, one of the co-directors of the gallery la Demeure, whom she was close to, who encouraged Jacqueline Duhême to turn to the medium: preceded by her reputation as an "imagière" (cf. bibliographie), illustrating Prévert, Eluard or Druon, she devoted herself to tapestry from 1967 (she then took Tourlière's courses at the ENAD in Aubusson, and became a devotee of Numbered cartoons) to 1981, with La Demeure even devoting to her a monographic exhibition in 1976.
Her world, coming from medieval mille-fleurs, is not without recalling Dom Robert, but a Dom Robert on amphetamines, where Nature abounds, is exotic, exuberant (cf. "Safari", "the bird of Paradise").
On a smaller scale, more refined too, our cartoon bears witness to Duhême's colorful inspiration's vitality.
Bibliography:
Cat. Expo. Jacqueline Duhême l’imagière, bibliothèque Forney, 2019
