Layered Silk Tapestry Painting by French Artist, Marie-Laure Ilie, 1980s

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This piece called "Interlude", is a bold and sophisticated large-scale textile composition that merges painting, collage, and architectural abstraction into … Read more This piece called "Interlude", is a bold and sophisticated large-scale textile composition that merges painting, collage, and architectural abstraction into a dynamic visual statement. Executed on hand-painted silk using ink and colorfast dyes, its surface absorbs and reflects light with subtle shifts throughout the day. The artist has placed several layers of tinted transparent silk organza cut-outs over a hand-painted silk twill background to create a complex interplay of opacity, transparency, and depth.

The work general appearance strongly reflects the visual language of the 1980s Postmodern era with clear reverence to Bauhaus Graphics and Wassily Kandinsky's Constructivist paintings in its geometric forms, intersecting planes, and sense of premeditated balance. At the same time, the cut and layered textile elements evoke Henri Matisse’s late cut-outs period, particularly in the use of biomorphic forms and playful layering.

Signed by Artist on bottom right corner.

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Marie-Laure Ilie (b. 1945) is a native of Paris, a former Fulbright Grant recipient and an MA graduate of The Sorbonne. Upon moving to the United States in the 1970s, she acquired formal art studies at the University of Michigan where she held a Teaching Fellowship and acquired an FBA. Her post graduate work includes painting, engraving and silk painting in Paris at Atelier de la Grand Chaumiere, Atelier Luçio Loubet, Atelier Friedlander, and Atelier Liza Bain where her extensive training complemented her personal art research.

She has shown her art extensively in the United States and Europe, in both solo exhibits and juried group shows, in galleries, universities, and museums. In addition to many private collections, corporate collections include the Bank of America, the Bank of New Zealand, Neiman-Marcus, Marshall Field and Company, Gale Research Company, and the Nicolaysen Art Museum. See less