Fourth dawn
Aubusson tapestry woven by the Picaud workshop.
With its signed selvedge, no. 2/4.
Circa 1970.
Marc Petit met Jean Lurçat in 1954, stayed in Aubusson in 1955, exhibited for the first time at La Demeure in 1956, became a member of the APCT (Association of Tapestry Cartoon Painters) in 1958. From these dazzling beginnings, he produced hundreds of cartoons, in a very personal style, where stilt walkers cross paths with tightrope walkers in dreamlike landscapes.
Economy of means always, with large flat areas and a restricted chromatic range, to give a singular dawn, a theme that the artist is fond of (cf. "the step of dawn", but also "Dawn", "the night fades"....) As for the cloud of passing birds, it is another leitmotif, which we see in "short dawn" for example.
