Fireworks display
Aubusson tapestry woven by the Pinton workshop.
With its selvedge signed by the artist.
Circa 1960.
Initially a poster artist, then an artist-ethnographer during the war, Perrot began his work as a tapestry designer after the war. He created nearly 500 designs, receiving numerous commissions from the French government (33 designs, making Perrot the most represented 20th-century tapestry designer in the Mobilier National collections!), most of which were woven in Aubusson. His eminently decorative and shimmering style is very distinctive: rendered in flat areas (without mottling or stitching), a profusion of animals (most often birds) stands out, without perspective, against a vegetal background, in the style of medieval mille-fleurs tapestries.
Like a floral pyrotechnic display, "Bouquet d'artifice" unfolds the different varieties in a sheaf, 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
; Exhibition catalog: René Perrot, My Poor Heart Is an Owl, Aubusson, Cité Internationale de la Tapisserie, 2023
