Tapis de jardin (Garden carpet)
Aubusson tapestry woven by the Simone André workshop.
1953.
After the traditional completion of some mural paintings in the 1930’s, he then arrived in Aubusson in 1936, became closely associated with Picart le Doux in 1947 and then joined the A.P.C.T. (Association des Peintres-Cartonniers de Tapisserie). From then on he devoted himself to tapestry with zeal and designed 167 cartoons, at first figurative following on from Picart le Doux and Saint-Saëns, then, influenced by the scientific themes that he dealt with, tending more towards abstraction. In 1981, two years before his death, he donated his studio to the Musée départemental de la tapisserie in Aubusson.
The « mise en abyme » (the tapestry entitled ‘Carpet’), the whimsical treatment (the mischievous cat), the subverted perspective (the garden plot laid flat), and the references to his contemporaries (Dom Robert, Picart le Doux) make this lyrical cartoon a synthesis of the artist’s concerns at the time.
Bibliography :
Exhibition catalogue Hommage à Louis-Marie Jullien, Aubusson, Musée départemental de la Tapisserie, 1983
