Le petit oiseleur (the little bird-catcher)

Aubusson tapestry woven by the Picaud workshop.
With label, n°1/6.
Circa 1970.

Elie Grekoff, whose aesthetic is similar to that of Lurçat, designed over 300 cartons.

“The little bird catcher” is typical of a vein characteristic of Grekoff where melancholic children consider each other within a dream-like landscape against a background of large flat areas of colour, redolent of an illustration for a folk tale.