Panel (Dress or Furnishing Fabric)

Description

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.

Provenance

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.

Panel (Dress or Furnishing Fabric)

Atelier Martine

c. 1920

Accession Number

86368

Medium

Cotton and linen, plain weave; block printed

Dimensions

139.7 × 130.5 cm (55 × 51 3/8 in.)

Classification

textile

Museum

The Art Institute of Chicago

Chicago, United States

Credit Line

Gift of Robert Allerton