Pheasant
Aubusson tapestry woven by the Pinton workshop.
With its signed label.
Circa 1960.
Perrot begins 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).
Ornithological subject, profusion of motifs inspired by medieval mille-fleurs, flat uniform background (in this case the famous "Perrot blue" as the Pinton workshops called it, used recurrently) make our cartoon an exemplary model of Perrot's art from the 1960s onwards.
Bibliography:
Tapestry, drawings, paintings, engravings by René Perrot, Dessein et Tolra, 1982
Cat. Expo. René Perrot, my poor heart is an owl, Aubusson, Tapestry City, 2023
