Reference number :78J/D434

Origin : France - Aubusson

Period :20 th century

Provenance : Private Collection

Composition : Wool and coton

Dimension: W 288x H 198

DOM ROBERT (FRANCE, 1907 – 1997)

Pavane de neovembre - 1962

Gallery Jabert presents a tapestry woven by the Tabard workshop, in Aubusson in 1962. An identical copy can be found at the Château d’Apremont.

D om Robert, pseudonym Guy de Chaunac-Lanzac, born 1907, is a Benedictine monk, upholsterer, French painter and ceramicist.

The meeting with Jean Lurçat in September 1941 had a decisive impact on the fate of Dom Robert as a tapestry cartoon designer.

“I had the impression from this brief contact to work beside a big brother who did not keep any secret boot. He showed me his samples of wool, (…) I learned the use of threshing for interpenetration of colors and all kinds of possibilities to make the most of this warm matter. Let’s say, the simplest classic vocabulary to achieve the most eloquent effects».

The woven work of Dom Robert includes nearly one hundred and fifty original cartoons, mostly woven in Aubusson. Around forty in the Tabard workshops between 1941 and 1980, including L’Esté, Dom Robert’s first tapestry. A hundred in the Goubely workshop between 1955 and 1994. One piece, Terriblilis for the Notre-Dame church in Dijon, was woven by the Mobilier National in Beauvais. A few rare cartoons with private workshops in England (Ronald Cruickshank) and in France (Cauquil- Prince, Novion / Tehery, Delaye, J.Dassonval) complete his work. Tapestries are often published in many copies and are mostly in private collections. Public (a school, a high school, a town hall) and private (corporate headquarters) buildings also have Dom Robert tapestries as well as some museum collections: Paris Museum of Modern Art, Les Gobelins, Dijon Museum, Angers Museum, City of Aubusson tapestry museum.

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