Galatea
Aubusson tapestry woven by the Picaud workshop.
With its ribbon signed by the artist, no. 1/4.
1970.
Loewer created his first cardboard work in 1953; his creations were initially figurative before he shifted (like Matégot) towards abstraction, which was exclusively geometric in Loewer's case. He composed more than 180 cardboard works, most of which were woven by his friend Raymond Picaud.
Woven in a single copy according to the catalogue raisonné, "Galathée" is representative of the artist's style around 1970, whose recurring plastic sign became the square, used in superimpositions.
Bibliography:
Claude Loewer, l’évasion calculée: travaux de 1939 à 1993, catalogue raisonné des tapisseries de 1953 à 1974, Sylvio Acatos, Charlotte Hug, Walter Tschopp, and Marc-Olivier Wahler, Artcatos, 1994, no. 120