Karate
A modernist tapestry, designed by Mathieu Mategot, 1910-2001, made at the Pinton workshops in Aubusson, France.
Signed by the artist and Pinton Freres monogram, no 3 of 6, circa 1965.
Height: 5ft 4in (162cm) Width: 4ft 7in (140cm).
Mathieu Mategot was born and educated in Budapest, where he studied at the School of Fine Arts and Architecture (1925-29), he started out with creating sets for the National Theatre and after traveling to Italy and the United States, moved to France in 1931, working as a window dresser (Galeries Lafayette) and women’s clothing designer and made sets for the Folies Bergère.
In 1933 he started to create his first examples of rattan furniture mounted on metal frames. Mategot volunteered for the French army at the start of World War II and was taken prisoner. He learned metalworking techniques as a prisoner of war, after the war he started again in designing furniture of metal-mounted rattan, steel tubing, glass, Formica, and perforated sheet metal in particular.
His first cartoons were woven in Aubusson, France, in 1945 and he joined the APCT, (Association of Painters and Cartoonist of Tapestries) in 1950. He worked with Jean Lurçat, who was a close friend, Mario Prassinos and many others to modernize contemporary French tapestry. By the 1970s, Matégot again began to design for tapestries, many of which could be seen as woven Abstract Expressionist paintings and he can be considered the first to take on this style with using various tone gradings of colour of Japanese influence.
Many of his exhibitions got him recognition all over the world and particularly in Paris, at La Demeure gallery. His tapestries can be seen in several places: the Bank of International Settlements at Basel , the Woolmark Head Office in London, the International Monetary Fund, at Washington, the National Library of Australia , at Camberra, the Rouen Préfecture, France, (100sqm large) and the National Air and Space Museum, Washington, D.C., to name but a few. Mategot died in 2001 at Angers, France.
Reference:
Adolph Hoffmeister, Great Tapestries, The Web of History from the 12th to 20th Century, Edita S.A, Lausanne, 1965.
Patrick Favardin, Mathieu Mategot, Du Desin a la Tapisserie, Norma, 2014.
Price : £ 14,000
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