Pheasant
Aubusson tapestry woven by the Pinton workshop.
With its signed selvedge.
Circa 1960.
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).
The ornithological subject, the profusion of motifs inspired by medieval millefleurs, the flat plain background (in this case the famous "Perrot blue" as the Pinton workshops called it, used recurrently) make our cardboard an exemplary model of Perrot's art from the 1960s.
Bibliography:
Tapestry, drawings, paintings, engravings by René Perrot, Dessein et Tolra, 1982.
Exhibition catalog: René Perrot, My Poor Heart Is an Owl, Aubusson, Cité de la Tapisserie, 2023.
