Panel (Dress or Furnishing Fabric)

Description

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.

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)

Raoul Dufy

c. 1918

Accession Number

86373

Medium

Cotton and linen, plain weave; block printed

Dimensions

135.6 × 131.8 cm (53 3/8 × 51 7/8 in.)

Classification

textile

Museum

The Art Institute of Chicago

Chicago, United States

Credit Line

Gift of Robert Allerton