Survol (flying over)
Aubusson tapestry woven by the Legoueix workshop.
With signed label, n°5/6.
1974.
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.
These compositions “as the bird flies” are typical of the artist.
Bibliography :
Simon Chaye tapisseries contemporaines, Editions Librairie des musées, 2014, ill. p.83
