Escort
Aubusson tapestry woven by the Picaud workshop for the Verrière gallery.
With its signed selvedge, no. EA.
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 as always, with broad flat areas and a restricted chromatic range, for a singular theme: a star at the bottom of the seas, "escorted" by disturbing fish, a singular dawn (leitmotif for the artist) of life.
