FRENCH TAPESTRY JEAN PICART LEDOUX MODERNIST AUBUSSON MID CENTURY Robert Four

Created in France in the 1950 this cotton tapestry reflect the democratic desire of that time to produce affordable art . Neo fantastic and influenced by the cubist movement Picart Ledoux tapestry use the vocabulary of natural symbol like the sun , animal and musical instrument , mixing decorative subject with mythological scene. Picart Le Doux was a great master of Aubusson tapestry, which has produced over four hundred original tapestries in his lifetime. This one is an homage to spring ,the lyre birds , possibly about a poem from Jacque Prevert , edited by Robert Four, Musique de chambre , ( chamber music ).Those tapestry placed on wall to bring an organic feel to a mid century interior answered the need to add some warmth to an otherwise cold mass produced style of furnishing so prevalent in the 1950's and 1960'.The lyrebird is a symbol of poetry, song, auditory skills, a love of language and poetic inspiration in all of us.

Size 38 x 69 , Signed on the back label .It is silk screen instead of hand weaved , it is still a hand done process requesting artistic skill , this one is number 6 of a limited edition of 200.

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