Nu couché (reclining nude)
Aubusson tapestry woven in the Four workshop.
N°EA2/2.
Circa 2000.
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Promenade près d'Argenteuil (Stroll near Argenteuil)
Aubusson tapestry woven in the Four workshop. With signed, n°8/8. Circa 2000. -
Au crépuscule (at dusk)
Edmond Dubrunfaut can be considered as the great 20th century renovator of the Belgian tapestry tradition. He founded a weavers’ workshop in Tournai as early as 1942, then, in 1947, created the Centre de Rénovation de la Tapisserie de Tournai. He produced for various Belgian workshops (Chaudoir, de Wit,…) numerous cartoons destined notably to adorn Belgian embassies throughout the world. Moreover, Dubrunfaut was a teacher of monumental art forms at the Academie des Beaux-Arts de Mons from 1947 to 1978 and then, in 1979, contributed to the creation of the Fondation de la tapisserie, des arts du tissu et des arts muraux de Tournai, a veritable heritage centre for the art of the tapestry in Wallonie. His style, characterised by figuration, strong colour contrasts, draws direct inspiration from nature and animal life (as with Perrot, for example, this artist has a net predilection for birdlife). In this respect, this cartoon is characteristic of the aforementioned predilection, but here the realistic representation of the motif is a departure from Perrot’s habitual stylisation. Bibliography : Exhibition catalogue Dubrunfaut et la renaissance de la tapisserie, tableaux, dessins, peintures, Musée des Beaux-Arts de Mons, 1982-1983, n°254.Tapestry woven in the DMW workshop. With signed label. 1974. -
Double amitié (double friendship)
Aubusson tapestry woven in the Four workshop. With signed label, n°EA1. 1972. -
Sérénade à la lune (moon serenade)
Aubusson tapestry woven by the Braquenié workshop. N°IV/VI. 1952. -
Kalinka
Aubusson tapestry woven in the Andraud workshop. With label, n°4/6. 1980.Established in the Creuse region of France, he started working on tapestries in 1965 with the Andraud workshop for whom he designed cartoons inspired by the local flora, in a decorative style which can be situated somewhere between that of Dom Robert and Maingonnat, a world away from his landscape paintings which were strongly influenced by the impressionists. The title of this piece, which will be evocative to lovers of folk-song, is the name (but in Russian !) of the subject illustrated : kalinka meaning guelder-rose. -
Composition
Aubusson tapestry woven in the Henry workshop. With signed label, n°1/1. 1984. -
L'oiseau de rêve (the dream bird)
Aubusson tapestry woven in the Tabard workshop. With signed label. 1966.
