Hommage to Abbé Breuil
Aubusson tapestry woven by the Atelier Pinton.
With its bolduc.
c. 1955.
Perrot began his career as a cartoonist (painter-cartoonist) at the end of the war, producing nearly 500 cartoons, with numerous commissions from the State, most of which were woven in Aubusson. His highly decorative, luminous style was very characteristic: a profusion of butterflies or birds, most often, set against a plant-based ground, in the spirit of mille-fleurs tapestries (from which Dom Robert would also draw inspiration). An astonishing cartoon inspired by the paintings of the Lascaux cave, where the tapestry had never so truly deserved the name of a parietal art; Perrot's contribution, however, was ultimately fairly modest there: saturation of the colours (notably of the ground, between periwinkle and pink), densification of the motifs (more scattered in the cave), washes spread out,…
Etonnant carton inspiré des peintures de la grotte de Lascaux, où la tapisserie n’a jamais autant mérité son nom d’art pariétal ; la part de Perrot y est finalement assez modeste : saturation des couleurs (notamment du fond, entre parme et rose), densification des motifs (plus éparpillés dans la grotte), tavelures étalées,…Si Perrot a multiplié les cartons –hommages ( à Pergaud, à Redouté, à Audubon,….), celui-ci vaut surtout pour la proximité avérée de l’artiste et du dédicataire, « le pape de la Préhistoire » : l’hommage ne tient pas ici qu’à l’artificialité d’une commande publique.
Bibliography:
Tapestry, drawings, paintings, engravings by René Perrot, Dessein and Tolra, 1982.
