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Panel (Dress or Furnishing Fabric)

A work made of silk, twill weave; screen printed.

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  • A work made of silk, twill weave; screen printed.

Date:

1924

Artist:

Designed by Léon Bakst (Russian, born Belarus, 1866–1924)
Produced by the Robinson Silk Company for Clingen and Selig (New York)
United States, New York

About this artwork

Bakst traveled to America in 1922, when he was invited to Baltimore by Mr. and Mrs. John Work Garrett to design the conversion of the gymnasium in their home, Evergreen House, to a theater. he made sketches, which were turned into stencils for painted images on the columns and celing of the room. After his return to Paris in April 1923, Bakst was invited by an American named Selig to design textiles for his firm. This American production, to which all four of Allerton’s Bakst fabrics belong, is similar in character to the decoration of the Evergreen Theater, shown at right.

Status

Currently Off View

Department

Textiles

Artist

Léon Bakst (Designer)

Title

Panel (Dress or Furnishing Fabric)

Place

France (Object designed 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 1924

Medium

Silk, twill weave; screen printed

Dimensions

139.1 × 99.1 cm (54 3/4 × 39 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Robert Allerton

Reference Number

1924.182

Extended information about this artwork

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