Blanc
Carpet
Wool
Woven signature on the edge on the back
Edition of 10
Model created circa 1968-1970 (after) a cartoon and the painting “Peinture Murale”
created in 1926
H 261 ×L 142cm
Note: Model manufactured before 1930 after a cartoon and the painting ‘Peinture
Murale’ by Fernand Léger (1926) – the Myrbor edition was displayed in Robert Mallet-
Stevens living room, rue Mallet-Stevens, in Paris.
Bibliography:
– “Tapis de maîtres – Arp, Calder, Cocteau, Derain, Ernst, Klee, Léger, Miro,
Nicholson, Picasso”, Exhibition catalogue, Ed. Galerie Lucie Weill-Seligmann, Paris,
1988, similar model illustrated p. 16
– J. Sirat, F. Siriex, B. Foucart, “Tapis Français du XXe siècle: de l’art nouveau aux
créations contemporaines”, Ed. de l’Amateur, Paris,
1993, similar model illustrated p. 224
– Encyclopédie des métiers d’art: Décoration
Moderne, Paris, vol. 1: fabric, 1930, no 10, p. 97, preparatory gouache illustrated in
color
– S. Day, “Robert Mallet-Stevens, architecte”, Paris, 1980, Myrbor edition model
illustrated p. 280
– D. Paulvé, M. Cuttoli, “Myrbor et l’invention de la tapisserie moderne”, Paris, Ed.
Norma, 2010, Myrbor edition model illustrated p. 44
– C.Mildred, “Contemporary French Tapestries”, exhibition catalogue, Charles E.
Slatkin Galleries Inc., New York, 1965, similar model illustrated p. 29
Exhibition: tapis de maîtres, galerie Lucie Weill-Seligmann, Paris, 1985, p. 1, in color
