La rivière d’argent (The Silver River)
Aubusson tapestry woven in the Hamot workshops.
With signed label.
1965.
It was in 1953 that Jean Picart le Doux proposed to Chaye to become his assistant and encouraged him to design tapestry cartoons : he would produce numerous bucolic cartoons, but also views of Normandy (Mont Saint Michel, Honfleur, regattas,…) whence he came.
A classic cartoon in the artist’s naturalistic style, who specialises in enclosures, hedgerows and riverbanks, brought to life by animals
Bibliography :
Simon Chaye tapisseries contemporaines, Editions Librairie des musées, 2014, ill. p.32
