"La Moisson" (The Harvester)
Raoul Dufy|Atuyer, Bianchini et Férier
ca. 1912 · Printed linen · Modern and Contemporary Art
The artist Dufy met the couturier Paul Poiret in 1911. With Poiret’s encouragement and financial backing, Dufy created a series of bold monochromatic textiles, hand block-printed in a manner suggestive of both eighteenth-century toiles de jouy and the abstract geometries of modern painting. Poiret used these principally, but not exclusively, for clothing; they soon attracted the attention of the commercial manufacturer Atuyer, Bianchini et Férier, who, much to Poiret’s chagrin, subsequently co-opted their production.
- Artist
- Raoul Dufy|Atuyer, Bianchini et Férier
- Date
- ca. 1912
- Medium
- Printed linen
- Department
- Modern and Contemporary Art
- Credit line
- Purchase, Edward C. Moore Jr. Gift, 1923
