Tribute to Abbé Breuil
Aubusson tapestry woven by the Pinton workshop.
With his bolduc.
Circa 1955.
Perrot began his work as a tapestry designer after the war, creating nearly 500 designs, with numerous 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).
An astonishing cartoon inspired by the paintings of the Lascaux cave, where tapestry has never so deserved its name of parietal art; Perrot's part is ultimately quite modest: saturation of the colors (especially of the background, between lilac and pink), densification of the motifs (more scattered in the cave), spread-out speckles,…If Perrot multiplied cartoons – homages (to Pergaud, to Redouté, to Audubon,…), this one is worth above all for the proven closeness of the artist and the dedicatee, “the pope of Prehistory”: the homage here does not only consist of the artificiality of a public commission.
Bibliography:
Tapestry, drawings, paintings, engravings by René Perrot, Dessein et Tolra, 1982.
