Pheasant
Aubusson tapestry woven by the Pinton workshop.
With its signed ribbon.
Circa 1960.
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).
Ornithological subject, abundance of motifs inspired by medieval mille-fleurs, uniform background (in this case the famous "blue Perrot" as the Pinton workshops called it, used recurrently) make our cartoon an exemplary model of Perrot's art from the 1960s.
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
