Saturday, February 24, 1973
EXHIBITION OF CONTEMPORARY FRENCH TAPESTRIES
An exhibition of contemporary French tapestries, featuring works
by some of the best known French artists of today, can now be seen at the
City Museum and Art Gallery.
Presented jointly by the Urban Council and the Peter Stuyvesant
Foundation as a special contribution to the Hong Kong Arts Festival, the
exhibition will remain on view until March 25.
On display are 28 colourful, and powerfully decorative tapestries
designed by prominent French modern artists including several pieces of
Lurcat and significant works by Le Corbusier, Prassinos, Dom Robert Singier,
Wogensky, and Saint-Saens among others.
Some of the pieces on display are very large, measuring nine
by ten feet in width.
All the exhibits were selected from the Peter Stuyvesant Foundation's
collection of modern French tapestries which is one of the most comprehesnive
in the world.
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