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    Mathieu Matégot

    La flamme (the flame)

          Portalegre tapestry woven by the Fino workshop. Complete with certificate of origin signed by the artist, n°2/6. Circa 1965.   Matégot, originally a decorator, then creator of artefacts and furniture (an activity he abandoned in 1959) met François Tabard in 1945 and gave him his first cartoons, first of all figurative then rapidly of abstract design in the 1950’s. He became a member of the A.P.C.T. (Association des Peintres Cartonniers de Tapisserie) in 1949, participated in many international exhibitions (Matégot, like Lurçat before him, was an untiring advocate of the art of tapestry) fulfilled numerous public commissions, sometimes of monumental proportions (“Rouen” 85m2 for the Préfecture of the Seine Maritime département, and also tapestries for Orly Airport, for the Maison de la Radio, for the IMF...) and designed no fewer than 629 cartoons up until the 1970’s. In 1990 the Matégot foundation for contemporary tapestry was inaugurated in Bethesda, U.S.A. Matégot is an artist, like Wogensky, Tourlière or Prassinos, who turns wool textiles resolutely towards the abstract: at first lyrical, geometric in the 70’s, exploiting various technical aspects of the loom : colour graduations, shading, irregularities... An abstract cartoon characteristic of the artist’s production in the mid-1960’s : the evocation of the flame, stylised and in an agressive violet hue, refers directly to Matégot’s interest in industry and all things technical but also to the interplay of woven transparencies of which he made himself a master.   Bibliography : Exhibition catalogue, Matégot, Angers, Musée Jean Lurçat et de la Tapisserie Contemporaine, 1990-1991
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    Elie GREKOFF

    Chardons aux papillons blancs (Thistles with white butterflies)

       
    Aubusson tapestry woven by the Caron workshop. With signed label, n°EA. Circa 1970.
     
        Elie Grekoff, whose aesthetic is similar to that of Lurçat, designed over 300 cartons  until the early 1980s. Here we find the sharp shapes typical of tapestry in the immediate post-war period. Note the motif which, amusingly enough, goes beyond the border-frame.  
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