Mathieu Matégot [SEP] place of death
one of leaders of the modern movement in French tapestry. His tapestries today hang in many major buildings.
For example, three of his works are in the National Library of Australia.
When the building was opened, the "three remarkable tapestries [were] glowing like jewels in the marble-clad foyer".
He was a friend of Jean Lurçat.
His work used a restrained range of colors in rigorously abstract designs.
Mathieu Matégot died at Angers, France in February 2001.
Mathieu Matégot
Mathieu Matégot (4 April 1910 – February 2001) was a Hungarian / French designer and material artist. He was one of the most renowned French designers of the 1950s.
Early years.
Matégot was born on 4 April 1910 at Tápió-Sully, a village about from Budapest in Hungary.
He studied at the school of fine arts and architecture in Budapest between 1925 and 1929.
He created sets for the National Theater.
He then traveled in Italy and the United States before settling