Tauromachy
An Aubusson tapestry woven by the Rivière des Borderies workshop.
1946.
Perrot began his work as a 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 eminently decorative and dazzling style is very characteristic: an abundance of butterflies or birds, most often set against a vegetal background, in the taste for mille-fleurs tapestries (from which Dom Robert also drew inspiration).
An atypical tapestry in Perrot's oeuvre: a daring, strident chromatic palette, unusually simplified treatment, a singular theme, as if choreographed, and involving the human figure; one feels close to Saint-Saëns. But perhaps this was a commission Cartoon?
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Tapestry, drawings, paintings, engravings by René Perrot, Dessein et Tolra, 1982
