Prolog (Prologue) (Dress or Furnishing Fabric)

Textiles

1922

Designed by Maria Likarz-Strauss (Austrian, 1893–1971)
Produced by the Wiener Werkstätte (Vienna, active 1903–1932)
Austria, Vienna

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Textiles

Artist: Maria Likarz-Strauss (Designer)
Title: Prolog (Prologue) (Dress or Furnishing Fabric)
Place: Vienna (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 1922
Medium: Silk, plain weave; screen printed
Inscriptions: Inscription (on left selvage): W W W W; (on right edge): Prolog 16
Dimensions: 8.8 × 19.5 cm (3 1/2 × 7 5/8 in.); Repeat: 6.5 × 10.1 cm (2 1/2 × 4 in.)
Credit Line: Robert Allerton Endowment
Reference Number: 1991.83.50

Barry Friedman, New York, by Dec. 4, 1990 [incoming receipt RX18704, Dec. 4, 1990; copy in curatorial object file]; sold to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1991.

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