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Panel (Dress or Furnishing Fabric)

A work made of cotton and linen, plain weave; block printed.

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  • A work made of cotton and linen, plain weave; block printed.

Date:

c. 1920

Artist:

Possibly designed by Raoul Dufy (French, 1877-1953)
Produced by the Atelier Martine (French, 1912-1929) founded by Paul Poiret (French, 1879–1944)
Paris, France

About this artwork

Poiret’s Atelier Martine, established in 1912, was strongly influenced from the very beginning by the Wiener Werkstätte. Both Poiret and Dufy found WerkstUatte patterns appealing. Poiret purchased fabrics during his visit to Vienna in 1911 and later incorporated fabrics designed by Peche in some of his garments. This fabric’s flat, flksy, and relatively undetailed floral pattern, shown in silhouette against a sharply contrasting ground, reflects a type popular in Vienna over the years. Poiret had seen this naive folk art quality in Vienna fabrics and encouraged the young untrained girls in his new school to capture it.

Status

Currently Off View

Department

Textiles

Artist

Raoul Dufy

Title

Panel (Dress or Furnishing Fabric)

Place

Paris (Object made in)

Date  Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.

Made 1915–1925

Medium

Cotton and linen, plain weave; block printed

Dimensions

135.6 × 87 cm (53 3/8 × 34 1/4 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Robert Allerton

Reference Number

1924.199

Extended information about this artwork

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