Panel (Dress or Furnishing Fabric)

Description

Although the majority of the Atelier Martine's textiles were designed by anonymous school girls, some patterns were provided by experienced artists or designers. One was Francis Jourdain, who trained as a painter and printmaker but turned to interior design early in his career. In addition to acting as an ensemblier, creating whole interior ensembles, he designed furniture, fabic, wallpaper, and stained glass. Jourdain set up an atelier to produce his furniture designs, following Poiret's example, but had no such operation for textiles, so he provided this design to the Atelier Martine.

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)

Francis Jourdain

c. 1920

Accession Number

111433

Medium

Cotton and linen, plain weave; block printed

Dimensions

138.1 × 128 cm (54 3/8 × 50 3/8 in.)

Classification

textile

Museum

The Art Institute of Chicago

Chicago, United States

Credit Line

Gift of Robert Allerton