The wise gold
Aubusson tapestry woven by the Pinton workshop.
With its label, No. EX-A.
Circa 1970.
Marc Petit meets Jean Lurçat in 1954, stays in Aubusson in 1955, exhibits for the first time at La Demeure in 1956, becomes a member of the A.P.C.T. (Association of Painters-Cartoonists of Tapestry) in 1958. From these brilliant beginnings, he produces hundreds of cartoons, in a very personal style, where waders cross tightrope walkers in oneiric landscapes.
Nocturnal birds of prey are a leitmotif (as also in Lurçat) of Petit since his beginnings. He associates them with another of his clichés, the treatment in echo/negative/symmetry, in birds, foliage, backgrounds…
