Bullfighting
Aubusson tapestry woven by the Rivière des Borderies workshop.
1946.
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).
This tapestry is atypical in Perrot's oeuvre: a bold, strident chromatic range, an unusually refined treatment, a singular, almost choreographed theme involving the human figure; it is reminiscent of Saint-Saëns. But perhaps it was a commissioned piece?
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Tapestry, drawings, paintings, engravings by René Perrot, Dessein et Tolra, 1982
