Birds
Aubusson tapestry woven by the Tapisseries de France cooperative.
1952.
Perrot began his work as a tapestry designer after the war, creating nearly 500 designs, with many commissions from the State, most of them woven in Aubusson. His eminently decorative and shimmering style is very characteristic: a profusion of butterflies or birds, most often, stands out against a vegetal background, in the style of mille-fleurs tapestries (which also inspired Dom Robert).
While birds are a recurring motif in Perrot's tapestries (almost a trademark!), landscape backgrounds are rare. Yet, the artist produced numerous gouaches inspired by his travels (the Doubs region, the Auvergne, Collioure, the Canary Islands…), a sensitive body of work that has remained, for the most part, private.
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Tapestry, drawings, paintings, engravings by René Perrot, Dessein et Tolra, 1982
