Midcentury Handwoven Signed Tapestry by Marc Petit for Aubusson

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Midcentury Handwoven Signed Tapestry by Marc Petit for Aubusson

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Handwoven tapestry "piege d'etoile" by Marc Petit for Aubusson. Produced by Atelier Picaud. Handsigned by artist. Woven Atelier signature, France, 1960s. Biography of Marc PETIT 1932 Born in Strasbourg. 1951 From this year and all his life, Georges Braque offers him his friendship. 1952 He exhibited at the Salon d'Automne, in Paris. 1954 PRIZE OF YOUNG PAINTING, at 22 years old. 1955 Lithographs: He makes his first prints. 1956 First engravings on copper. First exhibition of 18 tapestries in Paris Galerie La Demeure. From that date, Marc Petit's career is combined into an uninterrupted series of exhibitions in France and around the world; Here are some milestones of this rich artistic career. 1957 Tapestries, drawings, gouaches, lithographs. Galerie Landwerlin, Strasbourg and Colosseum Gallery, Paris. 1958Tapestry Exhibition Oxford University. Museum of Decorative Arts, Paris. Elected Members of the Association of Painters Cardboard Tapestry in the company of Lurcat, Grommaire, Le Corbusier, Saint-Saens, Picart the Sweet, Lagrange, Calder, Gilioli, Rene Perrot, Prassinos, Wogensky, Vasarely. 1959 Musée des Augustins, Toulouse. Museum Contemporary Crafts, New York. Augustiner Museum, Friborg. Museum fur Kunsthandwerke, Frankfurt, Germany. Salon des Décorateurs and Salon d'Automne, Grand Palais, Paris. Texas Art Center, Fort Worth, USA. Palace of Legion of Honor, San Francisco, USA. Fine Arts Gallery, San Diego, USA. 1960 Victoria and Albert Museum, London. Museums of Tokyo, Kyoto, Nagoya, Japan. 1961 French Exhibition in Moscow. 1962 French Tapestries: Washington, New Orleans, Montreal, Atlanta, Portland ... USA 1963 "Paris to Vienna" Vienna City Hall, Austria. "Crafts and men": Television by Jacques Chancel. 1964 "The Tapestry" by Marc Petit: Conference at Lyon's Club Chalons in Champagne. For the 20th anniversary of the death of Saint-Exupéry, he composes, for the Gallimard editions, a tapestry "Task of being Happy" in tribute to the Little Prince. 1965He has Jacques Verrière as publisher and exhibits at Galerie Verrière in Lyon. Exhibitions in Berlin, Halle, Leipzig, Germany and also in Prague, Bratislava, Litomeric, Czechoslovakia. "Birth of a Carpet" Short film by Marc Petit, Gaumont Cinematographic News by the National Institute of Carpets. 1968 Tapestry Exhibition Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide, Australia; in Abidjan, Ivory Coast. Received by President Houphouët-Boigny, acquisition of a monumental tapestry for the National Assembly "Les Souffleur d'Étoiles". Tapestry Gallery Verrière exhibition in Lyon. Realizes the program of the theater of Celestins. Museum of Contemporary Crafts, New York. Realizes the emblem of the twinning Alsace Paris-9e. 1969Researcher by the National Council of Leather, carries out studies on the resistance and the polychromy of the skins for purposes of industrial application and clothing as well as for the architecture and the habitat. Exhibition of Tapestries, Lithographs, Drawings in Caen. Conference at the University of Caen. 1970 "Presence of the Tapestry" Aubusson. Make a tapestry "Le Vin Heureux" tribute to Fleurie for the Clos des Quatre Vents. 1971 "French Tapestries" Birmingham Museum, United Kingdom. Tapestry Exhibition at the Royal College of Arts, London. Exhibition of 25 tapestries News, Gallery Verrière, Paris. Produce three album covers at Éditions Cassiopée. 1972A monumental tapestry "It is a mount that chimeras ..." acquired by the Presidency of the People's Bank of Burgundy. 1973 Tapestry Exhibition New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles, USA. 1974 "Contemporary Masters" in Saint Tropez. "Aubusson Portes Ouvertes" Symposium on the Tapestry chaired by André Chandernagor. Regional news of September 30 around Marc Petit. Mini tapestries for Air France. 1975 Tapestry Exhibition, Espace 2000 Gallery, Brussels, Belgium. 1976 Broadcast devoted to Marc Petit by France Culture, Nancy. Realization of a mosaic 80 m long and 5 m high for a Technical Center in Châlons-en-Champagne. 1977Realization of a mosaic of 30 square mothers for a school group in Châlons-en-Champagne. Realization of three tapestries for the ceiling of the Grand Salon at the Rotary Hotel in Geneva. 1978 Realization of three tapestries for the General Direction of Crédit Agricole de Lorraine in Nancy. Exhibition of Drawings and Tapestries in Belfort. In the framework of "The Road of the Tapestry", Retrospective Marc Petit Tapestries and Mosaics in the Chapel of the Castle of Felletin. Composition and realization of 11 mosaic panels for the gendarmerie barracks of Charleville. 1979 Exhibition of 33 tapestries by Marc Petit including a monumental tapestry "They pass through the holes of the wind (39 m²) at the Palace of Music and Congress of Strasbourg. Exhibitions in different cities including La Malmaison in Cannes, the Museum of Modern Art in Troyes, the Collegiate Church of Saint Pierre Le Mans, the Museum of Fine Arts in Nimes. At the Palace of the Kings of Majorca: Inauguration Concert by Rostropovitch with the Bordeaux Orchestra conducted by Roberto Benzi in front of the Tapestry "They go through the holes of the wind". 1981 Realization of two tapestries including "L'Ambitieux Étoilé" for the Société Générale de Belgique. Tapestries, drawings and paintings exhibition at Lambersart, exhibition in Charleroi. Exhibitions in many cities including Biarritz, the Palais des Conges in Monaco, the Palais de l'Europe in Le Touquet. 1982 Exhibitions in France and Baden Baden, Germany. 1983Exhibition at the French Embassy, ??Caracas, Venezuela. 1984 Tapestry exhibition in Houston, Miami, USA and Champagne Besserat Bellefond in Reims. 1987 For the tercentenary of the pilgrimage of the Three Ears composes and realizes in Schoenwald in Bavaria two series of limited edition plates. Until 1990 Exhibitions in Avignon, Troyes, Rennes, Paris, Lyon, Cannes, Saint-Tropez, Vence and many other cities in France. 1994 He returns to the Art of Glass by the study of Fusing and realizes series of tests and plates. 1995 Edition by "PTT Cartophilie" of a series of prints and postcards. 1997 Exhibition "Aubusson twentieth century" 1998 Exhibition of Paintings, Drawings and Tapestries, Galerie Art Témoin, Paris. 1999 Study tour on glass in Sweden and Denmark. Since 2000 Painting and Art of Glass, creation of projects for the Art of the table. Today Relocated to Aubusson, he creates New Carpets and New Tapestries.

Creator:
Atelier Raymond Picaud (Manufacturer),Aubusson Manufacture (Manufacturer),Marc Petit (Artist)
Dimensions:
Height: 1.19 in (3 cm)Width: 40.56 in (103 cm)Depth: 74.81 in (190 cm)
Style:
Mid-Century Modern (Of the Period)
Materials and Techniques:
Tapestry,Hand-Woven
Place of Origin:
France
Period:
1960-1969
Date of Manufacture:
1960
Condition:
Wear consistent with age and use.
Seller Location:
Saarbruecken, DE
Reference Number:
Seller: 201902051stDibs: LU1004813785642