Sumatra
Aubusson tapestry woven by the Four workshop.
With signed label, n°EA.
Circa 1960.
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Coq papillon (cock butterfly)
Aubusson tapestry woven in the Picaud workshop. With label signed by the artist's widow. Circa 1960. -
Sérénade à la lune (moon serenade)
Aubusson tapestry woven by the Braquenié workshop. N°IV/VI. 1952. -
Nu couché (reclining nude)
Aubusson tapestry woven in the Four workshop. N°EA2/2. Circa 2000. -
Promenade près d'Argenteuil (Stroll near Argenteuil)
Aubusson tapestry woven in the Four workshop. With signed, n°8/8. Circa 2000. -
Marché aux chameaux (camel market)
In a similar vein to Toffoli, Raymond Poulet criss-crossed the world and his travels provided the themes that inspired his work ; the oriental inspiration has few precursors among the world of the peintre-cartonniers other than Bezombes.Aubusson tapestry woven by the Jean Laurent workshop. 1980. -
Amazonie (Amazonia)
Aubusson tapestry woven by the Hamot workshop. With signed label. 1962. Jean Picart le Doux is one of the foremost figures in the renaissance of the art of tapestry. His earliest contributions to the field date back to 1943 when he designed cartoons for the passenger ship “la Marseillaise”. A close associate of Lurçat, whose theories he would adopt (limited palette, numbered cartoons...), he was a founding member of the A.P.C.T. (Association des Peintres-cartonniers de Tapisserie), and soon after, a teacher at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs. The state gave him several commissions most of them at the Aubusson workshop, and some at the Gobelins : the most spectacular of these being for the University of Caen, the Theatre in Le Mans, the passenger ship France or the Prefecture of the Creuse département ... In as much as Picart le Doux’s aesthetic is close to that of Lurçat, so also is his inspiration and his subject matter, although in a register which is more decorative than symbolic, where he brings together heavenly bodies (the sun, the moon, the stars...), the elements, nature (wheat, vines, fish, birds...), man, literary quotation ... Since « Orénoque » dating from 1956 (Bruzeau n°72), South America recurrs regularly in the work of Picart le Doux. Here “la huppe”, a vertical cartoon (Bruzeau n°97) is enlarged horizontally by the addition of the river peopled with turtles, fish ...in a highly effective decorative ensemble. Bibliography : Marthe Belle-Jouffray, Jean Picart le Doux, Publications filmées d’art et d’histoire, 1966, ill. n°5 Maurice Bruzeau, Jean Picart le Doux, Murs de soleil, Editions Cercle d’art, 1972, ill. n°129 Exhibition Catalogue, Jean Picart le Doux, tapisseries, Musée de Saint-Denis, 1976 Exhibition Catalogue Jean Picart le Doux, Musée de la Poste, 1980, n°14 ill. -
Double amitié (double friendship)
Aubusson tapestry woven in the Four workshop. With signed label, n°EA1. 1972. -
Escorte (escort)
Aubusson tapestry woven in the Picaud workshop for the Verrière gallery. With signed label, n°EA. Circa 1970. -
Paysage au flamboyant (landscape with flamboyant)
In a similar vein to Toffoli, Raymond Poulet criss-crossed the world and his travels provided the themes that inspired his work.Aubusson tapestry woven by the Jean Laurent workshop. N°6/6. Circa 1990.
