Despite himself
Aubusson tapestry woven by the Picaud workshop for the Verrière gallery.
With its bolduc, n°EA.
c. 1970.
Marc Petit encountered Jean Lurçat in 1954, stayed in Aubusson in 1955, exhibited for the first time at La Demeure in 1956, and became a member of the A.P.C.T. (Association des Peintres-Cartonniers de Tapisserie) in 1958. From these dazzling beginnings, he produced hundreds of cartoons in a highly personal style, where long-legged birds cross paths with tightrope walkers in dreamlike landscapes.
This large tapestry combines several motifs that are specific to Marc Petit and characteristic of his imagination: a tightrope-walking character, birds (discreet here), an aster, foliage, in an equivocal, poetic title, which he especially enjoys.
