The death of the hare
Aubusson tapestry woven by the Rivière des Borderies workshop.
1946.
Perrot began his work as a cartoonist at the end of the war, producing nearly 500 cartoons, with many commissions from the State, most of which were woven in Aubusson. His highly decorative and shimmering style is very characteristic: a profusion of butterflies or birds, most often, stands out against a vegetal background, in the taste of mille-fleurs tapestries (which Dom Robert also drew inspiration from).
One of Perrot's oldest tapestries, contemporary with 'the fox hunt' which was featured in the seminal exhibition of 1946, our cartoon testifies to Perrot's first inspiration: taste for Nature, animals, interest in botany, geology, for inhabited landscapes (man is absent here, but he inhabits the village, he is a hunter)... The artist-ethnographer recycles into tapestry the observations carried out for the Museum of Arts and Popular Traditions during the war.
Bibliography:
Tapestry, drawings, paintings, engravings by René Perrot, Dessein et Tolra, 1982, ill. p.83
Cat. Expo. René Perrot, my poor heart is an owl, Aubusson, City of Tapestry, 2023
