Red sun
Aubusson tapestry woven in the Atelier Legoueix.
With its bolduc Signed by the artist, no. 1/6.
1989.
It was in 1953 that Jean Picart le Doux offered Chaye the chance to become his assistant and encouraged him to create tapestry cartoons: he would then produce many bucolic cartoons, but also views of Normandy (Mont Saint Michel, Honfleur, regattas,…), from which he was originally from.
A cartoon that combines two leitmotifs of Simon Chaye—the bouquet, and the cloud of birds—here set off against a red sun background.
Bibliographie :
Simon Chaye tapisseries contemporaines, Editions Librairie des musées, 2014, ill. p.120
