Fleurs de serres et colibris (Greenhouse Flowers and Hummingbirds)
Aubusson tapestry woven by the Bascoulergue workshop.
With signed label, n°3/6.
Circa 1975.
Perrot began his career as a cartoon designer at the end of the war, making almost 500 cartoons including numerous commissions from the state, most of which were woven at Aubusson. His style which is particularly rich and decorative is eminently recognisable : a crowd of butterflies or birds, most often, stands out against a background of vegetation, reminiscent of the millefleurs tapestries (which would also inspire Dom Robert).
Perrot’s celebration of nature and the great outdoors is sometimes tempered, as the title of our print attests: our print, with its exotic subject matter, is nevertheless not so far removed from ‘les simples’ (medicinal plants) cartoon, for example.
Bibliography :
Tapisseries, dessins, peintures, gravures de René Perrot, Dessein et Tolra, 1982
Cat. Expo. René Perrot, mon pauvre cœur est un hibou, Aubusson, Cité de la Tapisserie, 2023
