Le Pecheur des Etoiles (The Fisherman of Stars)
After a design of Marc Petit, born 1932, woven at the workshop of Raymond Picaud, Aubusson, France. Signed in the tapestry and with original artists signature on reverse label. C1964.
Height: 8ft 7in (236cm) Width: 6ft 9in (206cm)
With the death of the tapestry artist Jean Lucart in 1966, who was responsible for the resurgence of the Aubusson workshop after the Second World War, a new generation of artists supplied designs for tapestry. Marc Petit was one of them and his compositions of surreal decoration are combined with figurative themes. A native of Strasbourg, he met Lurcat in 1954 and since 1955 has been working with weavers in Aubusson.
In the ground breaking exhibition, Modern French Tapestry, held at the Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery and later at the Royal College of Art, London, both in 1972, there was a Marc Petit tapestry, executed in 1964, entitled Il n’est Monture, having similar themes and figures, though a larger weaving.
Raymond Picaud’s Aubusson workshop had been weaving tapestry since the 17th century and was at the forefront of progressive tapestry firms. Numerous artists: Calder, Le Corbusier and Braque, to name but a few, all have provided designs for tapestry to Picaud.
Literature: Modern French Tapestry, Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery exhibition catalogue, 1972, plate 30.
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