René Perrot (1912-1979) - Sans titre · Grande gouache pour tapisserie
This is a large gouache by René Perrot: preparatory board for tapestry.
144 × 118 cm. A rare large painting by René Perrot (1912-1979)
crease mark from folding at the center, small holes on the four sides (hanging) .
Son of schoolmasters and of peasant descent on his mother’s side, René Perrot was born and grew up in Cuse-et-Adrisans, a small village in Franche-Comté. From 1932 to 1936 he attended the École nationale supérieure des arts décoratifs in Paris (where he would later teach) . His teachers included Léon Deshairs, Raymond Legueult and especially Cassandre, who encouraged him, as well as Carlu, to pursue a career as a poster designer, a path he followed up to his mobilization in 1939.
He shared a studio in Paris on rue du Saint-Gothard with a dog, seven cats and two hundred fish. It is there that he met Jean Lurçat and many artists from all over Europe.
Often accompanied by various animals, such as his dogs or cats, his mascots, almost a totem, are the owl and its cousin the horned owl, which he never ceased to defend and protect. He said he was moved in his childhood by a tawny owl found nailed to a barn door to ward off a supposed evil spell. These nocturnes would be included even in his most monumental tapestries.
Grisette, a small little owl born in captivity, which was entrusted to him by a veterinarian, would live about ten years in semi-liberty in his Paris workshop during the 1960s.
René Perrot is mainly famous for the some 400 original cartoons for woven tapestries — often in several copies — at Felletin, Aubusson or the Goblins (Gobelins) , the fruits of official or private commissions. He initiated the revival of this wall art alongside his elder by twenty years, Jean Lurçat. In 1945 he was named artistic adviser to the Rivière des Borderies mill (future Pinton mill) , which he helped to revive and bring back to activity by working closely with the Creuse workshops. In 1946, he participated in the exhibition at the Musée national d’Art moderne “The French tapestry from the Middle Ages to the present day” alongside older artists such as Lurçat, Picard le Doux, Saint-Saëns and Dom Robert. He convinced his friend Manessier, a former member of Jeune France, to create an initial tapestry cartoon “La construction de l’Arche,” which was woven at Felletin, helping to provide work for the weavers.
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This work comes from the family archives of Georges Tautel (1913–1992) , a former student of the École des Arts Décoratifs, where he befriended the artist René Perrot. The two artists maintained a close relationship and regularly exchanged drawings and works.
This provenance is documented notably by several black-and-white archival photographs showing René Perrot in his studio while executing various cartoons. Among these documents is also a photograph depicting a tapestry woven from one of these cartoons, a self-portrait of the artist, a greeting card, and a portrait of René Perrot with his little owl Grisette.
These archival documents are attached to the lot as evidence of the relationship between the two artists and of the work’s family provenance.
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This is a large gouache by René Perrot: preparatory board for tapestry.
144 × 118 cm. A rare large painting by René Perrot (1912-1979)
crease mark from folding at the center, small holes on the four sides (hanging) .
Son of schoolmasters and of peasant descent on his mother’s side, René Perrot was born and grew up in Cuse-et-Adrisans, a small village in Franche-Comté. From 1932 to 1936 he attended the École nationale supérieure des arts décoratifs in Paris (where he would later teach) . His teachers included Léon Deshairs, Raymond Legueult and especially Cassandre, who encouraged him, as well as Carlu, to pursue a career as a poster designer, a path he followed up to his mobilization in 1939.
He shared a studio in Paris on rue du Saint-Gothard with a dog, seven cats and two hundred fish. It is there that he met Jean Lurçat and many artists from all over Europe.
Often accompanied by various animals, such as his dogs or cats, his mascots, almost a totem, are the owl and its cousin the horned owl, which he never ceased to defend and protect. He said he was moved in his childhood by a tawny owl found nailed to a barn door to ward off a supposed evil spell. These nocturnes would be included even in his most monumental tapestries.
Grisette, a small little owl born in captivity, which was entrusted to him by a veterinarian, would live about ten years in semi-liberty in his Paris workshop during the 1960s.
René Perrot is mainly famous for the some 400 original cartoons for woven tapestries — often in several copies — at Felletin, Aubusson or the Goblins (Gobelins) , the fruits of official or private commissions. He initiated the revival of this wall art alongside his elder by twenty years, Jean Lurçat. In 1945 he was named artistic adviser to the Rivière des Borderies mill (future Pinton mill) , which he helped to revive and bring back to activity by working closely with the Creuse workshops. In 1946, he participated in the exhibition at the Musée national d’Art moderne “The French tapestry from the Middle Ages to the present day” alongside older artists such as Lurçat, Picard le Doux, Saint-Saëns and Dom Robert. He convinced his friend Manessier, a former member of Jeune France, to create an initial tapestry cartoon “La construction de l’Arche,” which was woven at Felletin, helping to provide work for the weavers.
For more information:
https: //www. beauxarts. com/expos/rene-perrot-le-maitre-de-la-tapisserie-qui-murmurait-a-loreille-des-hiboux/
This work comes from the family archives of Georges Tautel (1913–1992) , a former student of the École des Arts Décoratifs, where he befriended the artist René Perrot. The two artists maintained a close relationship and regularly exchanged drawings and works.
This provenance is documented notably by several black-and-white archival photographs showing René Perrot in his studio while executing various cartoons. Among these documents is also a photograph depicting a tapestry woven from one of these cartoons, a self-portrait of the artist, a greeting card, and a portrait of René Perrot with his little owl Grisette.
These archival documents are attached to the lot as evidence of the relationship between the two artists and of the work’s family provenance.
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