Garland
Aubusson tapestry woven by the Atelier Legoueix.
N°4/6.
1985.
It was in 1953 that Jean Picart le Doux offered Chaye the opportunity to become his assistant and encouraged him to create tapestry cartoons: he would then produce numerous bucolic cartoons, as well as views of Normandy (Mont Saint Michel, Honfleur, regattas, …), of which he was originally from.
These "as seen from above" compositions were characteristic of the artist; here, the fields overflown, a very summery geometrized landscape, are—by magnifying-glass effect (or metaphor)—associated with the plants (wheat, corn,…) that make them up.
Bibliographie :
Simon Chaye tapisseries contemporaines, Editions Librairie des musées, 2014, ill. p.80
