L’éveil (the awakening)
Aubusson tapestry woven in the Legoueix workshop.
n°4/6.
1969.
It was in 1953 that Jean Picart le Doux proposed to Chaye to become his assistant and encouraged him to design tapestry cartoons : he would produce numerous bucolic cartoons, but also views of Normandy (Mont Saint Michel, Honfleur, regattas,…) whence he came.
Here birds and trelliswork cohabit in a style very reminiscent of Picart le Doux.
Bibliography :
Simon Chaye tapisseries contemporaines, Editions Librairie des musées, 2014, ill. p.30
