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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:

Designed and produced by Atelier Martine (French, 1912-1929), founded by Paul Poiret (French, 1879–1944)
Paris, France

About this artwork

Two pulsating columns of black flowers, perhaps coneflowers, shown in high relief against a gold ground, represent one of the Atelier Martine’s most graphically compelling patterns. Curtains made from this fabric decorated the drawing room of the barge Amour, which was part of Poiret’s “pavilion” at the 1925 International Exhibition of Decorative Arts.

Status

Currently Off View

Department

Textiles

Artist

Atelier Martine (Producer)

Title

Panel (Dress or Furnishing Fabric)

Place

France (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

139.7 × 130.5 cm (55 × 51 3/8 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Robert Allerton

Reference Number

1924.201

Extended information about this artwork

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