“Les Perroquets” Aubusson tapestry, after Raoul Dufy (1877-1953), Pinton workshop for the Moulin de Vauboyen, circa 1970

“Les Perroquets”
Wool Aubusson tapestry
Woven by the Pinton workshop for the Moulin de Vauboyen
No. 4/8
Circa 1970
After a motif from the panels Dufy painted in the late 1920s for Arthur Weisweiller’s villa L’Altana in Antibes
H. 146 cm × W. 170 cm

Biographical notes
A French painter, Raoul Dufy devoted much of his work to the decorative arts: textile designs for Paul Poiret and then the Bianchini-Férier firm, ceramics, and tapestry cartoons for Beauvais and Aubusson. In the late 1920s he painted panels for Arthur Weisweiller’s villa L’Altana in Antibes, some of whose motifs were later woven for Pierre de Tartas at the Moulin de Vauboyen.