29
WHYTES
SINCE 1783
,
But, further to these first cartoons, my excitement regarding the
drama of colour-inversion encouraged me to make at the time second
versions of these linear cartoons, inverted both in colour and tone.”
1
It would be fifty years before the artist could realise these second,
colour-inverted, versions.The present tapestry was woven at
Aubusson by celebrated
Lissier
René Duché in collaboration with the
artist’s son, Pierre.They have been described as linking “… the refined
simplicity of medieval weaving with the mastery of Cubist drawings”
and by le Brocquy, as an “… inverted transformation of mood, ‘as
contrary as night from day’”.
2
1
Exhibition catalogue for ‘Louis le Brocquy, Aubusson Tapestries’, Agnew’s,
London, 3-29 May 2001 (Artist’s notes; unpaginated).
2
Ibid.
€
40,000-
€
60,000 (
£32,000-£50,000 approx)