Hommage to Abbé Breuil
Aubusson tapestry woven by the Atelier Pinton.
With its bolduc.
Circa 1955.
Perrot began his career as a cartoonist (painter-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 highly decorative, luminous style was very characteristic: a profusion of butterflies or birds, most often, set against a plant-based ground, in the spirit of mille-fleurs tapestries (from which Dom Robert would also draw inspiration).
An astonishing cartoon inspired by the paintings of the Lascaux cave, where the tapestry had never so truly deserved the name of a parietal art; Perrot’s contribution, however, was ultimately fairly modest there: saturation of the colours (notably of the ground, between periwinkle and pink), densification of the motifs (more scattered in the cave), washes spread out,… While Perrot produced many cartoons—tributes (to Pergaud, to Redouté, to Audubon,…)—this one is above all valued for the clearly established proximity between the artist and the dedicatee, “the pope of Prehistory”: the tribute does not rest here only on the artificiality of a public commission.
Bibliographie :
Tapisserie, dessins, peintures, gravures de René Perrot, Dessein et Tolra, 1982.
