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Tapestry

Wool

NO. 32541

France

4'10" X 4'11" (1.47 m x 1.50 m)

$8,000

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Vintage Jean Picart Le Doux Square Tapestry “Concerto de Ravel” | Rug & Kilim

Name: Vintage Jean Picart Le Doux Square Tapestry “Concerto de Ravel” | Rug & Kilim
Brand: Rug & Kilim
SKU: 32541
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This 5x5 vintage Aubusson tapestry is a rare and special new curation from Rug & Kilim—a signed mid-century original by French artist Jean Picart Le Doux, entitled “Concerto de Ravel”, handwoven in wool and originating from France circa 1940-1950. On the Design: "Concerto de Ravel" (which translates to a concert of the same French region) features a bold geometric composition, where a dramatic violin emerges from a dynamic interplay of red, gray, and black planes against a star-studded nocturnal background. The artist's signature style is evident in his cubist-inspired treatment of space, with architectural elements suggesting concert halls or music stands, while golden flames and stars create a cosmic dimension that speaks to the transcendent nature of Ravel's music. The piece demonstrates exceptional Aubusson craftsmanship in its precise rendering of clean lines and geometric forms, while the color palette — dominated by deep crimson, cool gray, and midnight black punctuated by luminous golden stars — creates a balance that makes it a true collectible piece. Condition: This mid-century French tapestry further enjoys great condition for its age and origin—intended for use in wall-hanging projects only.

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Measurements: 4'10" x 4'11" ( 1.47 m x 1.50 m )
Categories: European, Tapestry, Vintage
Classification: Aubusson, Circle/Oval/Square, Classic/Traditional, European, Modern, Modern/Contemporary, Pictorial, Tapestry/Textile/Wall Hanging
Material: Wool
Origin: France
SKU: 32541

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November 4, 2026

Signatures, Editions, and the Bolduc on Modern and Rare Tapestries: The Mark of the Masters and Artists

There is a particular pleasure, known to every serious collector, in turning an object over. The front of a great tapestry or carpet is what seduces; the back, and the edges, are what tell the truth. And on the finest modern tapestries, that truth is written in a specific and often misunderstood language, a language of signatures, edition numbers, and a small woven label the French call the bolduc. To read it fluently is to hold the difference between a decorative object and a documented work of art. It is the same literacy that governs the print room and the rare book library, where a collector learns to read a plate mark, a watermark, a colophon. The modern tapestry, elevated to the status of fine art by Jean Lurçat and his circle in the mid-twentieth century, borrowed the apparatus of the fine art edition precisely because it wished to be understood as fine art. To understand the apparatus is to understand the ambition.

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October 30, 2026

The House the European Stuycks Kept: Madrid’s Royal Loom, Goya’s Cartoons, and the Spanish Carpet

There is a building in Madrid, a short walk from the Atocha station, where the same craft has been practiced without interruption for more than three hundred years. Its brick and its Neo-Mudéjar arches were raised in the nineteenth century, but the work carried on inside them belongs to a lineage older still, to 1720, when Philip V, having lost the Flemish tapestry workshops of the Spanish Netherlands to the Peace of Utrecht, resolved that Spain would simply make its own. He summoned a family of Flemish weavers, the Vandergotens, to Madrid, and founded the Real Fábrica de Tapices de Santa Bárbara. Three centuries later, in the presence of the King and Queen of Spain, the factory marked its tercentenary as one of the last places on earth where royal weaving continues by the hand, exactly as it always has.

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October 20, 2026

The Artists Behind European Tapestry: A Guide to the Names Worth Knowing

There is a persistent misconception about tapestry, and it is worth correcting at the outset: that the weaving is the whole of the art. It is not. Behind every great European tapestry stands an artist, the author of the design from which the weavers worked, and the history of the medium is in large part the history of these figures. To collect tapestry seriously, or simply to understand it well, is to know their names. What follows is a guide to the artists who matter most, arranged as the tradition itself unfolded, from the royal workshops of the old regime to the modern revival that made tapestry, once again, one of the most ambitious art forms in the world.

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September 25, 2026

Provenance, Structure, Intelligibility: The Three Pillars of Serious Collecting

Anyone can acquire a rug. To collect one, to bring it into a serious collection with the confidence that it belongs there, requires a discipline, and that discipline rests on three questions. Across four decades of building one of the most significant archives in the country, this house has come to evaluate every object through the same three. They are the difference between buying and collecting, and they are worth setting down plainly, because they apply as readily to a Safavid fragment as to a signed Aubusson, and because they are the same three questions, at bottom, that a curator at the Metropolitan or a specialist at Christie's brings to any object of consequence.

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May 15, 2026

Savonnerie, Aubusson, Gobelins: The Three Ateliers That Defined What Europe Believed a Rug Could Be

In the final years of the sixteenth century, the treasury of France was hemorrhaging. Not to war alone though there had been enough of that but to the East. French silver was flowing steadily toward Persia and the Levant in exchange for knotted-pile carpets, objects of such refinement and such authority that no European workshop had yet produced anything capable of competing with them. Henri IV, who had survived the Wars of Religion and the bankruptcy of a kingdom to sit on the French throne, was not a man inclined to accept a problem he could solve. He installed Pierre Dupont — weaver, entrepreneur, and the most technically accomplished carpet-maker in France in the galleries of the Louvre itself, in workshops beneath the palace's own roof, with a single instruction: make something that does not require us to send money to Persia.

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November 27, 2024

Jean Picart le Doux: The Modern Master Who Revolutionized French Tapestry

Tapestries are experiencing a definitive renaissance in contemporary interiors. Contemporary French tapestry continues this dialogue between tradition and innovation. Modern works from the historic workshops of Aubusson and Gobelins especially by Jean Picart le Doux, speak in a voice that's both ancient and startlingly current. They understand what their medieval predecessors knew: that a tapestry doesn't just hang on a wall – it transforms the very nature of the space it inhabits. French tapestry underwent a radical transformation in the mid-20th century. The tradition, nearly extinct after centuries of declining relevance, found new life through a handful of modernist innovators who fundamentally reimagined its possibilities. This revolution centered on three key innovations: radical simplification of color palettes, emphasis on architectural scale, and integration with modernist aesthetics. Traditional tapestries used thousands of colors, making production nearly impossible. Jean Lurçat's radical solution - limiting palettes to 40 colors - inadvertently created a new visual language. This restriction forced designers to think in bold shapes and strong contrasts, aligning perfectly with modernist sensibilities.

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Tapestry

Wool

NO. 32541

France

4'10" X 4'11" (1.47 m x 1.50 m)

$8,000

Available: Shipping as Soon as Tomorrow

Vintage Jean Picart Le Doux Square Tapestry “Concerto de Ravel” | Rug & Kilim

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Specifications:

Measurements: 4'10" x 4'11" ( 1.47 m x 1.50 m )
Categories: European, Tapestry, Vintage
Classification: Aubusson, Circle/Oval/Square, Classic/Traditional, European, Modern, Modern/Contemporary, Pictorial, Tapestry/Textile/Wall Hanging
Material: Wool
Origin: France
SKU: 32541

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Stories from the Tapestry Collection

Signatures, Editions, and the Bolduc on Modern and Rare Tapestries: The Mark of the Masters and Artists

The House the European Stuycks Kept: Madrid’s Royal Loom, Goya’s Cartoons, and the Spanish Carpet

The Artists Behind European Tapestry: A Guide to the Names Worth Knowing

Provenance, Structure, Intelligibility: The Three Pillars of Serious Collecting

Savonnerie, Aubusson, Gobelins: The Three Ateliers That Defined What Europe Believed a Rug Could Be

Jean Picart le Doux: The Modern Master Who Revolutionized French Tapestry

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Vintage Jean Picart Le Doux Square Tapestry “Concerto de Ravel” | Rug & Kilim

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