René PERROT

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).

One of Perrot's oldest tapestries, contemporary with "The Fox Hunt" which was featured in the seminal 1946 exhibition, our cartoon testifies to Perrot's first inspiration: a taste for Nature, animals, an interest in botany, geology, in inhabited landscapes (man is absent here, but he lives in the village, he is a hunter)... The artist-ethnographer recycles into tapestry the observations made for the Museum of Popular Arts and Traditions during the war.

Bibliography:
Tapestry, drawings, paintings, engravings by René Perrot, Dessein et Tolra, 1982, ill. p.83
. Exhibition catalog: René Perrot, My Poor Heart Is an Owl, Aubusson, Cité de la Tapisserie, 2023.