Loja (Dress or Furnishing Fabric)

Provenance

Barry Friedman, New York, by Dec. 4, 1990 [incoming receipt RX18704, Dec. 4, 1990; copy in curatorial object file]; sold to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1991.

Loja (Dress or Furnishing Fabric)

Maria Likarz-Strauss

1927

Accession Number

153091

Medium

Cotton and wool, plain weave with three-color supplementary pile warps forming uncut solid velvet

Dimensions

.149: 4.9 × 22.1 cm (1 7/8 × 9 5/8 in.) .150: 5.3 × 11.2 cm (2 1/8 × 4 3/8 in.) .151: 4.8 × 11 cm (1 7/8 × 6 1/4 in.) Weft repeat: 15.7 cm (6 1/4 in.)

Classification

textile

Museum

The Art Institute of Chicago

Chicago, United States

Credit Line

Robert Allerton Endowment