Contre-jour (backlighting)
Aubusson tapestry woven in the Picaud workshop.
With label, n°1/5.
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 stilt-walkers and acrobats wend in and out of dreamscapes.
Marc Petit’s collaboration with the Verrière Gallery in Lyon dates from the end of the 1960’s and several exhibitions were devoted to his work there. This tapestry is characteristic with its flat coloured surfaces and limited number of strongly-contrasted colours exploring a habitual theme of this artist : the rising (or setting) sun.
