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Sheila Hicks
Description
- Fresque textile, vers 1969
- linen, silk, coton
- 300 x 480 cm (118 1/8 x 189 in.)
Literature
Sheila Hicks, Warren Platner : formes tissées, formes architecturales, catalogue d'exposition, Centre Culturel américain, 17 mai - 15 juin 1968, Paris, page de couverture
Monique Lévi-Strauss, Sheila Hicks, Paris, 1973, p. 45
Sheila Hicks, catalogue d'exposition, Modern Master tapestries Inc., 16 mai - 15 juin 1974, New York, quatrième de couverture
Joan Simon, Susan C. Faxon, Sheila Hicks, 50 years, Andover, 2011, pp. 122-123
Condition
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Catalogue Note
Artiste indépendante, ses sculptures textiles s’imprègnent de sa connaissance des textiles historiques qui habite son œuvre.
En 1965, elle ouvre son studio quai des Grands Augustins à Paris, pui Passage Dauphine et finalement Cour de Rohan où elle continue de travailler.
Réalisées la plupart du temps en fibres végétales, ses œuvres aux lignes fluides sont construites de couleurs. Acclamée à travers les continents, Sheila Hicks participera à de très nombreuses expositions et enseignera à l’Ecole des Beaux-Arts de Fontainebleau.
Notre fresque, entre tapisserie et sculpture, est à rapprocher de différentes commandes réalisées à Paris et exécutées à la fin des années 60 et au début des années 70, notamment les petites salles-à-manger de la direction de la Banque Rothschild aménagées par Michel Boyer, ou encore la salle de Conférence de la Banque Dreyfus.
Born in 1934, American artist Sheila Hicks was trained at Yale University under the supervision of Joseph Albers, a known figure in the Bauhaus movement. She wrote her thesis on Pre-Columbian fabrics and learned how to paint. An independent artist, her textile sculptures are steeped in her expansive knowledge of historic textiles.
In 1965 she opened her studio quai des Grands Augustins, then moved it to passage Dauphine and then finally to Cour de Rohan where she still works today.
Most of the time created with vegetable fibres, her work is based on fluid lines and colours. Sheila Hicks has acquired worldwide praise for her objects, was part of many exhibitions and taught at l’Ecole des Beaux Arts in Fontainbleau.
Our panels, half tapestry, half sculpture, are similar to the commissions created at the very end of the sixties and at the beginning of the seventies in Paris, notably to the small dining rooms for the management at the Rothschild Bank decorated by Michel Boyer, and to the conference room of the Dreyfus Bank.