Prismes: 40 Planches de Dessins et Coloris Nouveaux, Pl. 20

Editions d'Art Charles Moreau|Emile-Allain Séguy

[ca. 1930] · Pochoir · Drawings and Prints

Design with overlapping diagonal strips of triangles of different sizes rendered alternatingly with hot-pink and white over a hot-pink base, over a background made up of horizontal burgundy and blue stripes. The design is part of a pochoir pattern book, titled "Prismes: 40 Planches de Dessins et Coloris Nouveaux" (Prisms: 40 Plates of Designs and New Colors), with Art Deco designs, probably for textiles, created by Émile-Allain Séguy and published in Paris by Éditions d’Art Charles Moreau, probably in the second half of the 1920s or the early 1930s. The book consists of a title page and 40 plates numbered 1-40, each with one design, bound with dark blue linen boards. The designs contain a variety of geometric, abstract and semi-abstract motifs executed in various colors, some of them including natural-inspired figures such as birds and flowers. All of them are typical of the Art Deco style, which was characterized by its eclecticism, drawing from a variety of sources that sought to combine old European design traditions with the modern style diffused by avant-garde art, while also reflecting the romantic fascination with early Egyptian and Meso-American "exotic" cultures promoted by archaeological discoveries of the times.

Artist

Editions d'Art Charles Moreau|Emile-Allain Séguy

Date

[ca. 1930]

Medium

Pochoir

Department

Drawings and Prints

Credit line

Jane E. Andrews Fund, in memory of William Loring Andrews, 1933, transferred from the Library