The pirates
Aubusson tapestry woven by the Bascoulergue workshop.
With its bolduc signed by the widow of the artist, n°1/6.
Circa 1975.
First a poster designer, then an artist-ethnographer during the war, Perrot began his work as a painter-cartoonist at the end of that period: he designed nearly 500 Cartoons, obtaining numerous commissions from the State (33 Cartoons; Perrot was the 20th-century cartoonist most represented in the collections of the Mobilier National!), most of which were woven in Aubusson. His highly decorative, brilliant style is very characteristic: treated in flat areas (without chints, without dotted highlights), a profusion of animals (mostly birds), stands out, without perspective, against a vegetable ground, in the spirit of medieval mille-fleurs tapestries.
A more narrative Cartoon than usual in Perrot: the artist then gives up the flower scatter inspired by medieval tapestry, and instead favors black grounds.
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
