October Bouquet
An Aubusson tapestry Atelier Legoueix.
With its bolduc, No. 5/6.
1974.
It was in 1953 that Jean Picart le Doux offered Chaye the opportunity to become his assistant and encouraged him to create tapestry cartoons: he would then produce numerous bucolic cartoons, but also views of Normandy (Mont Saint Michel, Honfleur, regattas,…), from which he was originally from.
The theme of the bouquet was omnipresent in Chaye’s work; it allowed him, within a stylised register, to create highly decorative seasonal or chromatic associations.
Bibliographie :
Simon Chaye tapisseries contemporaines, Editions Librairie des musées, 2014, ill. p.77
