Malgré lui (In spite of himself)
Aubusson tapestry woven by the Picaud workshop for the Verrière gallery.
With label, n°EA.
Circa 1970.
Marc Petit met Jean Lurçat in 1954, went to Aubusson in 1955, exhibited his work for the first time at La Demeure in 1956, became a member of the A.P.C.T. (Association des Peintres-Cartonniers de Tapisserie) in 1958. After this lightning start to his career, he produced hundreds of cartoons, in a style all his own, where long-legged waders and acrobats wend in and out of dreamscapes.
This large tapestry combines several motifs typical of Marc Petit, characteristic of his imagination: a tightrope-walker figure, birds (discreet here), a celestial body, foliage, and an ambiguous, poetic title, of which he is particularly fond.
