Manufacturer
UnidentifiedDate made
circa 1957Notes
Christie's reports that the “La Mangouste” motif, "[c]onceived in 1935," "was first executed as a tapestry in 1960 by Marie Cuttoli in an unnumbered edition and was later reissued by Lucie Weill-Seligmann, Au pont des arts, in a limited edition of approx. 10-15 examples." However, unless the Cuttoli edition has been mis-dated, the item in the MPL collection apparently predates it, since the tapestry was installed in the Central Youth Library by 1957. It is also numbered 4/10, even though the Cuttoli edition was reportedly unnumbered. Also, the item in the MPL collection seems to be smaller than any examples from online auction records, which all seem to measure around 60"H x 80"W.