Panel (Dress or Furnishing Fabric)

Description

A close connection to patterns from the Wiener Werkstätte can be seen in this design of birds in foliage. Several distinctive vegetal forms closely repeat elements seen in the textile, shown to the right, produced by the workshop in 1910/11. It is known that Poiret purchased large quantities of new fabrics from the workshop during his visit in late 1911, so perhaps the imitated piece was one of them.

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

86376

Medium

Silk, satin weave; block printed

Dimensions

133.4 × 85.1 cm (52 1/2 × 33 1/2 in.)

Classification

textile

Museum

The Art Institute of Chicago

Chicago, United States

Credit Line

Gift of Robert Allerton