Panel (Dress or Furnishing Fabric)

Textiles

c. 1920

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

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.

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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

Art Institute of Chicago, Elizabeth F. Cheney and Agnes Allerton Textile Galleries, Off the Bolt; Robert Allerton’s Designer Fabrics, Feb. 6-July 19, 2015.

Chambord, Inc., New York, by Apr. 1, 1924 [incoming receipt, Apr. 1, 1924; copy in curatorial object file]; sold through Robert Allerton, Chicago, to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1924.

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