204 cm

    Fumeron created his first cardboard sculptures (he would go on to make more than 500) in the 1940s, collaborating with the Pinton workshops, then receiving numerous commissions from the government, before participating in the decoration of the ocean liner "France." Initially figurative and influenced by Lurçat, he evolved towards abstraction, before returning to colorful and realistic figuration in the 1980s. Under the red sun, fish, insects, and lobsters frolic in a dreamlike composition typical of the artist: many of these motifs can be found, for example, in "Avant l'homme" (Before Man), woven by Les Gobelins (see Cat. Expo. "Le Mobilier National et les Manufactures Nationales des Gobelins et de Beauvais sous la IVe République" (The National Furniture and the National Manufactories of Les Gobelins and Beauvais under the Fourth Republic), Beauvais, 1997).