René PERROT

First, a poster artist, then an artist-ethnographer during the war, Perrot began his career as a painter-cartoonist at the end of the war: he designed nearly 500 cartoons, securing numerous commissions from the State (33 cartoons, Perrot was the most represented painter-cartoonist of the 20th century in the collections of the Mobilier National!), most of them woven in Aubusson. His highly decorative, shimmering style is very characteristic: treated in solid areas (without chinés, without piqués), a profusion of animals (most often birds) stands out, without perspective, against a vegetal background, in the spirit of medieval mille-fleurs tapestries. A more narrative cartoon than usual for Perrot: the artist then gives up floral scatterings inspired by medieval tapestry, and favors black grounds. Bibliography : Tapestry, drawings, paintings, engravings from René Perrot, Dessein and Tolra, 1982 Exh. Cat. René Perrot, mon pauvre cœur est un hibou, Aubusson, Cité Internationale de la Tapisserie, 2023