petit noir

The term petit relates to the titles of the paintings that are all place names of French over sea territories. As former French colonies, these small island groups still have strong ties with the Republic of France and some of them even belong to the territory of the United Europe.

The term noir together with small became famous in the history of fashion as "the small black" dress and is closely associated with the name of its designer Coco Chanel.

In the oeuvre petit noir, these two terms are interwoven to a new, small, fine, black series of works.