The Jumelles
Tapestry woven in the workshops of the Vauboyen mill.
bolduc Signed by the artist, no. 3/8.
1966.
Carzou was one of the many artists whose tapestries were woven at Bièvres in the Vauboyen Mill (hence the MV mark woven into the warp of the tapestries), which, from 1959 on, was transformed into a Cultural Center under Pierre de Tartas, and devoted to figurative art. Cocteau, Foujita, Erni, Volti,… and many others would pass through there, producing numerous monumental works, as well as in the applied arts (book illustration in particular).
Although he had become known at the beginning of his career as a painter of large-scale sets (especially for the stage), Carzou’s forays into tapestry were relatively rare. This cartoon preserves the artist’s so distinctive style, composed of interlaced lines illustrating dreamlike subjects, which are not without recalling the work of Lucien Coutaud.
