Sur un arbre perché (Perched in a Tree)
With signed label.
Circa 1960.
Fumeron designed his first cartoons (he would ultimately make over 500) in the 1940’s, in collaboration with the Pinton workshop, he was then commissioned on numerous occasions by the state before participating in the decoration of the ocean liner “France”. His work was figurative to begin with and influenced by Lurçat, then turned towards abstraction, before coming back to a style characterised by colourful figurative and realistic depictions from the 1980’s onwards.
There is no ‘Maître Corbeau’ in our tapetry, despite the allusion to La Fontaine’s fable. At that time, and regardless of the titles, almost all of Fumeron’s drawings featured birds alongside a background composed strictly of orthogonal lines – a prelude to his abstract phase.
