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Modern tapestry designed by Mathieu Matégot - Régates

Creator: Mathieu Matégot -Atelier Pinton
Offered by: Boccara Gallery

Description
Mathieu Matégot (Hungary,1910 - 2001)

Title: Régates
Signed “Metégot” and numbered “1/6”
Wool tapestry handwoven by Atelier Pinton, Aubusson
273 x 193 cm
Edition: 1/6
1962

Hungarian-French designer and tapestry maker, Mathieu Matégot was born in 1910 in the suburbs of Budapest. After graduating from Budapest’s School of Fine Arts in 1929, he travelled abroad as many young people do. After spending time in the US and Italy, Matégot settled in Paris in 1931 and took work as a set designer and window dresser for arty Parisian hotspots, like the Folies Bergère and the Galerie Lafayette department store.

In the years leading up to World War II, Matégot began designing furniture, especially exploring rattan woven around metal frames. Along with many foreign artists at the time, he joined the French resistance. Captured by the Germans, he was requisitioned to work in a German factory. He was released in 1944 and was awarded French citizenship.

After the war, Matégot established Parisian workshop, dedicated to experimental, handcrafted furniture and objects. His designs explored a variety of materials, like metal, glass, Formica, woods, textiles, and leather. His most successful designs incorporated metal tubing and perforated sheet metal, with a technique he patented and named Rigitulle. In 1952, he developed a machine that could bend and fold sheet metal like a piece of fabric, which was used to create a number of distinctive designs, such as the Java Table Lamp, Soumba Tables, Bagdad Lamp, Satellite Pendants, and Nagasaki Chairs. After few years, Matégot opened a second workshop, called Société Matégot, in Casablanca, where he was able to broaden his production to include small decorative objects, like trays, wastebaskets, and magazine-holders, side tables.

In 1959, Mathieu Matégot stopped designing furniture, he ends his career as a designer in the early 1960s and devoted himself to tapestry. He moved to Angers and dedicated himself exclusively to the creation of abstract tapestries until he passed away in 2001.

More Information

Documentation:	Documented elsewhere (exact item)
Origin:	France
Period:	1950-1979
Materials:	Handwoven wool tapestry
Condition:	Excellent. This tapestry is in perfect condition without restoration, vivid original coulours.
Creation Date:	1962
Styles / Movements:	Other
Incollect Reference #:	297908

Dimensions

W.	75.98 in;	H.	107.48 in;
W.	193 cm;	H.	273 cm;

Message from Seller:

The Boccara Fine Art department presents paintings, photography and special attention is given to sculpture, which is one of the gallery owner’s greatest passions. Following one of the guidelines developed by Didier Marien, not only worldwide famous artists such as Wang Keping, André Lanskoy, Léon Zack, Dominique Pollès, Serge Charchoune, Clement Rosenthal, Anton Smith but also emerging artists like Simone Pheuplin, Émile Gilioli and Laurence Bonnel are represented by the gallery.