Les Ateliears Plasse Le Caisne Lot n° 50

Abstract composition Woven tapestry 176 x 273 cm Provenance: > Collection of the Plasse Le Caisne Workshops > Private collection, Paris (by direct line descent) Founded by weavers Jacques Plasse and Laure (Bilou) Le Caisne, the Ateliers Plasse Le Caisne created tapestries from the 1940s to 1950s in collaboration with major artists of the Second Paris School such as Roger Bissière, Jean Le Moal, Alfred Manessier, Édouard Pignon, Georges Rouault, Gustave Singier, Jacques Villon, Léon Zack and Zao Wou Ki. Beyond the simple transcription of a piece of cardboard, the weavers immerse themselves in the artist's work, have lunch and dinner with him, see hundreds of his paintings, and sometimes wait six months or a year with the cardboard stuck on the studio wall before finally getting down to work. For Jacques and Laure Plasse Le Caisne, "the 50-metre hanging rolls up for 9 months, we work in fours, without seeing what we have done, and the terrible, crucial and fateful day arrives: we put the tapestry on the wall.