Yves Millecamps was born in 1930 in Armentières in the North. He studied at the École Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs in Paris, then followed the teaching of Marc Saint Saens and André Arbus. In 1952, he met Jean Lurçat who encouraged him to create tapestry patterns; the young artist became fascinated not only by the work of Jean Lurçat, but also by that of Marcel Gromaire. In 1955, he...

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  Yves Millecamps was born in 1930 in Armentières in the North. He studied at the École Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs in Paris, then followed the teaching of Marc Saint Saens and André Arbus. In 1952, he met Jean Lurçat who encouraged him to create tapestry patterns; the young artist became fascinated not only by the work of Jean Lurçat, but also by that of Marcel Gromaire. In 1955, he made his very first tapestry in Aubusson; more than a hundred tapestries followed, which were woven mainly by the Pinton factory in Felletin. He is undoubtedly one of the tapestry painters who marked the revival of tapestry at the turn of the 1960s-1970s. His creative style, between 1959 and 1973, will evolve from the onirism close to Jean Lurçat to the geometric abstraction.
  The artist devoted himself to other forms of expression, including metal work for monumental sculptures as part of the 1% cultural, medals with the Monnaie de Paris and screen printing. Nevertheless, he remains essentially a painter and will definitively turn to geometric abstraction from 1963.In 2012, he published the catalog raisonné of his woven work and in 2018, he made a first and important donation to the Musée Jean-Lurçat et to the contemporary tapestry  Museum in Angers (including twenty-five tapestries).The originality of Yves Millecamps is to have started his career as a visual artist with tapestry before tackling painting. Painter and sculptor: he paints in oil before switching to acrylic in 1966, the following year he made his first large relief in stainless steel.Yves Millecamps was elected in June 2001 to the Académie des Beaux-Arts, in the chair of Jean Dewasne.Millecamps participates in numerous group exhibitions, including the Biennales Internationales de la Tapisserie de Lausanne since 1962.The works of Yves Millecamps can be found in numerous museum collections. Among others, in Paris, the Mobilier National, the Fond national d'art contemporain (Fnac) and the Bibliothèque Nationale, the Musée des Beaux-arts de Lille et de Tourcoing, the Museums of Nice, Montbéliard and Chollet, the Musée de la Tapisserie d'Angers and, abroad, in Neuchâtel, Taiwan, Sofia... Yves Millecamps receives many private and public orders throughout the world, but his works are very rare on the art market. He has participated in several International Tapestry Biennials as well as in major exhibitions on contemporary tapestry such as Tapisserie Nouvelles at the Musée des Arts Décoratifs in Paris in 1975, which was a landmark event.
  
  

  

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