Mid-20th Century Tapestries

Elegant French wall tapestry from the 1960s, handcrafted from natural cotton and jute, embodying the softness and charm of that era.

Aubusson tapestry from 1940/50, French, handmade in wool and cotton. Size 310 x 210 cm. A castle in the background and a hunting scene in the foreground is a marvel of textile art t...

An abstract woven and hand tied wool tapestry. Signed and stamped.

Style Zapotec Wall Art Tapestry Rug Vibrant colors red, black and pink. 25.25 w x 39.25 tall Preowned vintage unrestored condition. Review images please.

Traditional Small Rug Middle Eastern wall art Tapestry Handmade Persian prayer Rug 21.25 x 34.75 h Preowned original vintage condition. See images please.

Exquisite Hand Knotted fine Gold Silk Persian Rug Tapestry Elaborate design Persian Rug, museum quality, hand knotted. 36.25 w x 65 Preowned original unrestored vintage, very clean p...

Tapestry by Jean Picart Le Doux, circa 1950. "Composition aux instruments de musique" wool print

Discover the profound beauty in simplicity with this captivating Vintage Hand-Woven African Tapestry. This remarkable textile art piece authentically depicts daily life scenes around...

"Splotchy" textile by Alexander Calder for Laverne Originals. Hand printed on linen. 26 ft. available The innovative husband-and-wife team Erwin and Estelle Laverne, specialized...

A strikingly visual shawl composed of alternating rows of horizontal stripes in undyed dark wool and insect dyed fuchsia red silk. The differing widths of each stripe imparts this te...

Soft Earthy Beautiful Circular Design Vintage Kreis Brown / Tan Colored Verner Panton Textile, Country Of Origin: Denmark, Circa Date: Mid 20th Century

Vintage Scandinavian Verner Panton “Kreis” Textile, Country Of Origin: Scandinavia, Circa Date: Mid 20th Century

A very finely woven wool veil used as a head scarf in the wedding ceremony among the Ait Abdallah Berber people of the Moroccan Anti-Atlas region. The pattern is obtained with the re...

A Mid-Century Modern wall hanging/ tapestry of a dark landscape with a scorpion like creature in a field of brown, orange and tan. A dot of magenta in the lower left corner offsets t...

A noble and elegant African blue wildebeest rug or carpet from the British Colonial era in Kenya. Blue Wildebeest are known beautiful and subtle color r...

- Germany, 1960s - Perfect condition, handmade - Very interesting piece of wall decoration - Eulan manufacturer jr.

A very finely woven wool veil used as a head scarf in the wedding ceremony among the Ait Abdallah Berber people of the Moroccan Anti-Atlas region. The pattern is obtained with the re...

Exceptional limited edition 1/2 tapestry "Pelops" with certificate from a private collection, 1964. Ateliers Pinton brothers in Felletin, under the supervision of Pierre Baudouin 2ex + 1EA Editor Aram Iynedjian. The tapestry will be sold with its certificate of authenticity from the gallery. From the 15th century, the name of Pinton was associated with the Aubusson tapestry. Since then, over the generations, the Pinton family has largely contributed to the development of this fabulous cultural heritage until the creation in the 19th century, of the Felletin factory, in the department of Creuse. Even today, in these workshops, the craftsmen execute the same correct gestures with the same attention to detail and thus extend the chain of the history of the tapestry of tradition but also contemporary. The hand of specialists, the eye of designers and dyers and the taste of the most demanding clientele find their meaning in the fabric of the carpets. The excellence of French know-how, a living heritage society and custodian of Aubusson's cultural heritage, has always collaborated with great artists. The works of Charles Le Brun, Charles Lapicque, Pablo Picasso, Jean-Michel Othoniel, and many other big names in the world of painting, architecture, design, fell into the looms and know-how ancestral of this unique Creuse creator. Editor Aram Iynedjian Aram Iynedjian, Lausanne gallery owner and editor of tapestries from Braque, Estève and Lapicque, the latter meets Pierre Baudouin, the most famous of the cardboard painters of the time. The one who translated the works of Le Corbusier, Calder or Picasso into tapestry then collaborates with Charles Lapicque and they will develop a work of great richness. Lapicque came to realize these two summits which are "Pélops" and "Diane et Actéon". I realize that you should never try to describe a work of art Let’s look at it. Let us admire the science of composition, linear purity, technical perfection, the beauty of color, the truth of the drama. Let us see, if we can, the implacable presence of genius. "We will now understand that after having based a painting on the love of tapestry, it was relatively easy, and very tempting, to build a tapestry faithful to my painting," explained the artist in the exhibition catalog. of the Galerie Verrière in 1970. It was not until 1961 that he began to produce cardboards both for the tapestry of the Lisse in Aubusson, but also at the Mobilier National, with the help of Pierre Baudouin Charles Lapicque (1898-1988) Born in 1898 in Theizé (Rhône) in a family practicing both the arts and the sciences, Charles Lapicque is no exception to the rule: gifted for music and drawing, he graduated from the École Centrale in 1921, works as engineer until 1928 before integrating in 1931 a laboratory at the Faculty of Sciences of Paris, where he carried out research on the perception of colors, crowned by the title of Doctor of Physical Sciences in 1938. He thus studies the reactions of the eye in front of an intense light source, at the origin of the formation of starry images which he will use in his works, and defines a theory of the staggering of colors in space which overturns the rules of the Renaissance: "I had shown that the Classic rule, that of Vinci, advocating placing the blues in the distance, the reds, oranges and yellows in the foreground, is a nonsense; it makes more sense, more favorable to do the opposite. "(In Red and blue in the arts, 1936) It was around 1920 that Charles Lapicque began to paint in Brittany where he spent every summer since his childhood, first on the motif and then in a workshop that his stepfather Jean Perrin, Nobel Prize in Physics, had him build in 1927 ; he then definitively adopted the work of memory, in accordance with the art of music which he deeply loved and the Bergsonian philosophy of knowledge: "It is up to us to give reality an appearance that it has no itself, a form, a figure (...). " His youthful production immediately reveals a great originality, oscillating between figuration and abstraction which sometimes intertwine: alongside synthetic paintings by their simplified drawing and their flat colors, he designs an Homage to Palestrina (1925), composed of a grid derived from Cubism, entirely abstract, relayed by a Christ with Thorns (1939), according to a principle that he will develop after 1939, in line with his optical discoveries. In fact, during the war years, an almost abstract period began, that of the tight blue framework, applied to backgrounds ranging from yellow to red and revealing a more or less identifiable world (Jeanne d'Arc crossing the Loire, 1940; Rencontres series, 1940-1945). Exhibited in 1929 by the gallery owner Jeanne Bucher, Lapicque abandoned his scientific career in 1943 to devote himself entirely to painting. He continued his work which resulted in 1946-1953 in white-frame structures; their much softer lines lead him to the system of either black or white interlacing which encloses areas of pure color, most often in solid color. With The Battle of Waterloo in 1949, Lapicque still uses optics - zooming in on a given area - to depict spaces with multiple perspectives and decomposed times. This new interest in the liveliness of color developed in the following period, which can be described as flamboyant or Baroque (1954-1963): illustrated in particular by the series of Breton lagoons and twilight or nocturnal views of Venice in the light. Stars, which the artist himself describes as “daring sweets”, it begins with the Raoul Dufy Prize of the Venice Biennale, awarded in 1953 to the artist who took the opportunity to give free rein to his passion for the Serenissima until July 1956. Another point in common with his elder brother is the expression of movement. Begun in 1949 in The Battle of Waterloo then in 1952 with Dimanche aux regates, it became an obsession from 1964, in the exploration of new themes, such as the different shots of tennis players captured on the fly (1965), the mythological scenes and sea storms. These dizzying years precede the artist's last period: as he comes of age, he discovers serenity, revealed by a painting now with acrylic paint, much more peaceful from 1974, which even borders on a childish naivety at the end. of his life. All of his work includes an astonishing diversity of themes, also nourished by his travels (Rome in 1957, Greece in 1964, Holland in 1974 ...), with a predilection for the sea, rocks, sailboats, music, tennis, horses, wild beasts, but also for history and mythology, as evidenced by knights, kings and ancient gods. It also deploys, in total creative freedom, a wide variety of styles and orientations. Having been one of the pioneers of non-figurative art, thus paving the way for artists like Manessier, Bazaine, Vieira da Silva, De Staël, etc. Owners of the new non-figurative Paris School of the Postwar period, Charles Lapicque then returned to figuration, in a "new interpretation" of appearance, even if he continued to rub shoulders with abstraction at times. "Drawing runs after color and color after drawing. " Heir to the Fauves, Charles Lapicque plays like them on pure colors, whose dissonances, associated with a totally free design and an overloaded composition in a multiple space, make him a precursor of the New Figuration in all its forms: the Narrative Figuration born in France in the early 1960s, represented in particular by Gérard Fromanger, Erró, Bernard Rancillac and Gérard Guyomard; Free Figuration born in the early 1980s, marked by Robert Combas, Hervé and Richard Di Rosa, Louis Jammes and François Boisrond, and which, in turn, influenced the American Bad Painting of a Jean-Michel Basquiat or a Keith Haring, deliberately neglected and Expressionist; Lapicque's “Classic subjects” were able to feed Cultivated Painting, which also appeared in the early 1980s with Jean-Michel Alberola, Patrice Giorda and Gérard Garouste...

Color block hand knotted carpet weave tapestry, c.1972, USA. A brightly colored wall hanging with black outlined shapes. The shapes vary in colors in ye...

Navy blue Kuba cloth or Mud cloth framed in acrylic with gold standoffs. Beautiful dark navy blue mud-cloth sandwiched between two pieces of custom acrylic. Four holes on the four co...

Tarô Tapestry, c. 1970 Signed "Tarô" at the bottom right. Artisanal natural fiber tapestry Measures: 76 x 102 x 2 cm. Beautiful rectangular wall tapestry with central geometri...

Tapestry of 1950s representing a bucolic scene with three figures. Elaborate weaving in shades of brown and orange with floreal decorations on the si...

Unique and large frame hand quilted pheasants that stand out in vivid hues. Imported artwork and sold by the heritage Woodwards Store in Canada. Excellent for use in study or bedroom...

A charming tribal weaving with a flat-woven red background and a pattern composed of polychrome concentric circles knotted in pile, creating a relief effect. This was used within the tribe as a baby cradle...

A Quintessential Mid Century Modern Vintage Green Color Verner Panton “Quadrat” Textile, Country of Origin: Scandinavian, Circa Date: Mid 20th Century

A large and colorful mid-century tapestry or kilim that has been mounted on (or rather tacked unto) a canvas that is black - to serve as a frame. The work is very colorful with bold ...

A super fine Japanese summer unlined (Hitoe) Kimono made with a soft Asa fiber blended with silk. The garment was hand-stitched and dated to circa 1930-50s Showa period. It is hard t...

Stunning Modernist Abstract Ecuadorian Tapestry / wall hanging designed by Olga Fisch.... Of Hungarian origin, Olga Fisch (1901-1991) emigrated in...

Virgin Mary with Child is a reproduction of Madonna del Libro, Sandro Botticelli, realized in Italy in 1940s. Border and fringe in fabric. Brass...

Large 67" x 67" Modernist rug / weaving, depicting 3 Musicians, hand loomed, Flat weave, reversible, reminiscent of famed image by Picasso. Wonderful wall ...

Exceptionally distinctive and fun vintage folk art wool wall hanging, exuding a captivating "Kilim" style portraying a knight from Normandy, France. Skillfully hand-woven, dating bac...

Hand knotted oriental wall hanging. Made from wool, jute and other natural materials. The piece is still in very good condition. Hand-knotted in ...

Vintage Scandinavian Verner Panton “Quadrat” Textile, Country Of Origin: Scandinavia, Circa Date: Mid 20th Century

Decorate a living room, or a staircase with this elegant and colorful suite of tall "Portieres". Handwoven in France circa 1970, each 8" feet wall piece features allegoric figures wi...

An oversized and impressive cape worn during ceremonial dancing by Miao people (also known as Hmong in English) from Guizhou Province, China circa 1940s-1950s in a rarely intact and well-preserved condition. Miao people are diverse minority groups living in Southern China as well as Southeast Asia with complex sub-affiliations based on attires, languages, cultural customs and art tradition. They are renowned for their textile and silver craftsmanship as well as singing and dancing traditions. This cape, rather heavy in construction and striking in bold red and black, was made from wool, hemp and cotton. The surface showcases elongated diamond patterns in complementary woven wool and couched plaque on top of the cotton part. The pattern strikes the viewer with a strong sense of dignity and power. The heavy material and pattern are strangely akin to some of the Navajo weaving. The cape is in a form a jacket with long and wide sleeves, and it was meant to be used in ceremonial occasions. Our research reveals that the piece was from the Northwest Guizhou in an autonomous county called Weining. The area is of subtropical highland and the generally cold weather was reflected in the heavy materials used in this piece, in comparison with other textiles made in the warmer lowland. There is an older paper label with price tag in Chinese inside the cape. It was purchased in Guizhou decades ago by a US collection in MA. With a span of over 94 inches long, it makes a very impressive textile art piece for wall hanging. Not framed and easily shipping folded up. For a similar jacket from Weining, see "Miao Textile...

A very large scale N’dop display cloth panel made of strips of indigo dyed mixed fibre cloth tie dyed with typical designs. With the original red and green...

Maija Kolsi-Mäkelä, (Finnish weaver) for Helmi Vuorelma / TÄKÄNÄ Tapestry. Handwoven "HEDELMÅ wall carpet decorated with fruits in strong colors. Desig...

This shadow box all acrylic framed handwoven wool rug with rich and vibrant colors. This is a Signed piece by H. Ocampos, renowned for his technique and mastery of indigenous scenes ...

Large decorative fine handmade vintage artwork 20th century 1960's wall tapestry showing scenery of Bratislava city. with Danube river. Set in an impre...

Vintage Scandinavian Verner Panton “Gradient” Textile, Country Of Origin: Scandinavia, Circa Date: Mid 20th Century

Abstract cubist quilted wall hanging. Made from fabric depicting a town with a surrounding of waves and multicolored other textures. The style ca...

Jan Yoors. Red Trees Tapestry, 1966. Hand-knotted wool. Measures: 94.75 x 76 x .5 in.

Dating to the mid-20th century, this vintage Japanese textile is a folk example of traditional stencil dyed fabric, known as katazome. Richly...

Impressive 1950-60s Aubusson tapestry by Henry Ilhe, with a wonderful "Birds in a wood" motive in amazing colors that are very well preserved.

French Handwoven tapestry with cherubs. Mid-20th century. A beautiful tapestry depicting a lush fruiting floral garden with many playful cupi...

Breathtakingly artistic vintage Scandinavian clown cat Karel Appel design art rug, country of origin / rug type: Scandinavia rug, Date: circa mid-20th...

Very fine and old item horse cloth Bokara Turkoman Yomuth - Rare and perfect also in Your home. nr. 109 -.

Unusual Rya rug, wall hanging from Ege Taepper of Denmark, amazing modernist design, piece has been hung all of its life. Excellent condition.

A breathtaking yellow, black, red and blue color vintage artist Jan Cremer art rug, country of origin / Rug type: Indian rugs, circa date: Vintage / mid-20t...

Elisabeth Baillon, Tapestry, the lute player, signed with brown thread in the left corner, cotton, circa 1960, France. Good condition. Height 6...

Vintage Norwegian Tapestry Rug by Eevahenna Aalto, Country Of Origin: Norway, Circa date: Mid 20th Century. Size: 3 ft 5 in x 4 ft 6 in (1.0...

Dating to the mid-20th century, this vintage Japanese textile is a folk example of traditional stencil dyed fabric, known as katazome. Richly...

JOHN PIPER CH (BRITISH,1903-1992) :CHIESA DELLA SALUTE, VENICE Screenprinted fabric, printed by Sandersons, 1959 In the late 1950's to the early 60's there was interest in painterly textiles that demonstrated the unique potential of screen printing, with its ability to capture the quality of brush-stroked colour "The monumental grandeur of many artists' textiles in the early 1960's was necessary if they were to work in the large scale architectural interiors of the era which witnessed a rapid growth in new public buildings, all which required furnishing with suitably prestigious fabrics". The painterly design is one of five fabrics designed by John Piper (1902-1993) for A Century of Sanderson 1860-1960, Sanderson's prestigious Centenary Collection. This study of the Chiesa della Salute church in Venice was taken from Piper's 1959 travels when he was commissioned by the Arthur Jeffress Gallery in London. He then regularly made paintings of the city, and drew illustrations for an edition of Adrian Stokes...

Framed Kuba Weaving, Democratic Republic of Congo, 1950s

Vintage hand hooked rug in a wonderful depiction of a forest scene with trees and water with men and animals. The rug has a delightful design and colors including green, ivory, lav...

- Easter (Pâques) 1962" by Jean Lurçat - Aubusson tapestry woven by the Atelier Goubely - 150 x 222 cm Lurçat's work shows a specifically decorative art of image making, in a very p...

1950s Spanish hand woven wool tapestry with Arab market scene.  

This Vintage Silk Suzani Hand-Embroidered Tapestry from Uzbekistan is a rare and visually striking example of Central Asian textile art, distinguished by its unique figural design....