Panel (Dress or Furnishing Fabric)

Textiles

c. 1918

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

This richly colored floral pattern, related to some of Dufy’s paintings, had a long lifespan within the atelier. This pattern was photographed as early as 1919 in the form of screens placed in the branch store in Biarritz, and as late as 1927, when it was used to decorate the walls, bed, seat coverings, and carpet of a cabin on the deluxe steamship Île-de-France, seen at right. The latter is a classic example of the unified design concept favored in the Wiener Werkstätte and promoted by Poiret.

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Textiles

Artist: Raoul Dufy
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 1910–1922
Medium: Cotton and linen, plain weave; block printed
Dimensions: 135.6 × 131.8 cm (53 3/8 × 51 7/8 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of Robert Allerton
Reference Number: 1924.203

Art Institute of Chicago, A Selection of Fabrics from the 1880s-1940s from the Permanent Collection, Nov. 13, 1982-Feb. 13, 1983.
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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