(SALE IN PREPARATION) MAGDALENA ABAKANOWICZ (1930-2017) - FORMER COLLECTION FRANÇOIS TABARD (THEN BY SUCCESSION) "Les Carrés / L'Échiquier bleu" 1962 Tapestry. Coloured wools. Signed with the monogram M.A. and dated (19)62 lower right in the weave; complete with its bolduc on the back with the handwritten words in ink: Magdalena ABAKANOWICZ - Kilim Szachownica (title) - Wym. 150 x 220 cm - Wyk. 1962. 220 x 150 cm Provenance : - François Tabard Collection. - Mrs X. Work held by inheritance. Important information: Our work appears in the catalogue raisonné of the artist's work under number 80; the card dated 1961 under number 46 (cf. Jolanta Gola, Magdalena Abakanowicz, catalogue raisonné, published by the All that Art Foundation under the direction of Prof. Alina Drapella Hermansdorfer, Wroclaw, 2024). Exhibition of our work: Galerie Dautzenberg, Paris, 20 November to 8 December 1962. Our work presented under number 2 of this exhibition. Bibliography : Collective - Abakanowicz; metamorphizm - Publishers of the Central Museum of Textiles in Lotz, 2018. Our work reproduced on pages 136-137 (archive photograph) of this book. Expert : Emmanuel Eyraud (006174).