Bouquet d’artifice
Tapestry from Aubusson woven by the Atelier Pinton
With its signed Authenticity label (bolduc) by the artist.
c. 1960.
At first an affiche-maker, then an artist-ethnographer during the war, Perrot began his painter-cartoonist work after it: he would design nearly 500 cartoons, receiving numerous commissions from the State (33 cartoons—Perrot is the most represented cartoonist of the 20th century in the collections of the Mobilier National!), most of which were woven in Aubusson. His highly decorative, shimmering style is very characteristic: treated in flat areas (without shading, without punctures), a luxuriant profusion of animals (most often birds) stands out, without perspective, against a vegetal background, in the spirit of medieval mille-fleurs tapestries.
Like floral pyrotechnics, "Bouquet d'artifice" unfolds the different varieties, even slightly stylized, in a frenzy of colors heightened by the black background: an ode to Nature.
Bibliography:
Tapestry, drawings, paintings, engravings by René Perrot, Dessein et Tolra, 1982
Cat. Expo. René Perrot, mon pauvre cœur est un hibou, Aubusson, Cité Internationale de la Tapisserie, 2023
