Bouquet of Artifice
Aubusson tapestry woven by the Pinton workshop
With its ribbon signed by the artist.
Circa 1960.
First a poster artist, then an ethnographic artist during the war, Perrot began his work as a painter-cartoonist at the end of it: he designed nearly 500 cartoons, obtaining numerous commissions from the State (33 cartoons, Perrot is the most represented cartoonist of the 20th century in the collections of the Mobilier National!), most of which were woven in Aubusson. His highly decorative and shimmering style is very characteristic: treated in flat colors (without mottling, without stitching) a profusion of animals (mostly birds), stands out, without perspective, on a vegetal background, in the taste of medieval mille-fleurs tapestries.
Like a floral pyrotechnics, 'Bouquet d'artifice' unfolds in a sheaf the different varieties, even slightly stylized, in a frenzy of colors accentuated by the black background: an ode to Nature.
Bibliography :
Tapestry, drawings, paintings, engravings by René Perrot, Dessein et Tolra, 1982
Cat. Expo. René Perrot, my poor heart is an owl, Aubusson, International City of Tapestry, 2023
