Quarte dawn
Aubusson tapestry woven by the Picaud workshop.
With its bolduc signed, 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, and became a member of the A.P.C.T. (Association des Peintres-Cartonniers de Tapisserie) in 1958. From these brilliant beginnings, he produced hundreds of cartoons, in a highly personal style, where long-legged birds cross tightrope walkers in dreamlike landscapes.
Always an economy of means, with broad flat areas and a tightly constrained chromatic palette, to create a singular dawn—a theme the artist is fond of (cf. » le pas de l’aube », but also « Aurore », « la nuit s’éteint »…). As for the cloud of passing birds, that is another leitmotif, one sees it, for example, in « aube courte ».
