Collection "Décors et Couleurs" Album No. 2, Planche 5
Pochoir pattern book, titled "Collection 'Décors et Couleurs' Album No. 2: Soixante-dix motifs décoratifs en dix-huit planches" (Collection 'Designs and Colors' Album No. 2: Seventy decorative motifs in eighteen plates), with Art Deco designs, probably for textiles, created by Jean Burkhalter and published in Paris by Éditions Albert Lévy, probably in the second half of the 1920s or the early 1930s. The book consists of a title page and 18 plates numbered 1-18, each with several designs, 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.
The fifth plate of the album presents two designs with semi-abstract floral motifs. The first design consists of a large abstract shape colored with pink and red dots that stands over a black ground, from which emerges a large semi-abstract flower with pink, red and black petals, white pistils with black and green glitches, and a green stem with a small pink flower, and four long stems with black and red flower buds, over a lilac ground. The second design consists of a bundle of overlapping semi-abstract leaves colored with shades of green, maroon, black, light blue, and white with green spots, some of them outlined with black or maroon, and a large semi-abstract flower with tan, maroon, pink and white petals, some of them outlined with black, over a lilac and dark green ground. The third design consists of an abstract bundle with a diagonal black-and-white trunk from which emerge two large abstract flowers, one executed with orange, yellow, and shades of green, and the other with orange, red, yellow and pink, with small red spots, maroon branches, and semi-abstract leaves executed with maroon, green and pink, at parts decorated with small green, red or black spots, over a black ground. The final design in this sheet is made up of semi-abstract roses with petals of various shades of pink and purple and green leaves over a ground that is partly blue and partly gray with black spots.
The fifth plate of the album presents two designs with semi-abstract floral motifs. The first design consists of a large abstract shape colored with pink and red dots that stands over a black ground, from which emerges a large semi-abstract flower with pink, red and black petals, white pistils with black and green glitches, and a green stem with a small pink flower, and four long stems with black and red flower buds, over a lilac ground. The second design consists of a bundle of overlapping semi-abstract leaves colored with shades of green, maroon, black, light blue, and white with green spots, some of them outlined with black or maroon, and a large semi-abstract flower with tan, maroon, pink and white petals, some of them outlined with black, over a lilac and dark green ground. The third design consists of an abstract bundle with a diagonal black-and-white trunk from which emerge two large abstract flowers, one executed with orange, yellow, and shades of green, and the other with orange, red, yellow and pink, with small red spots, maroon branches, and semi-abstract leaves executed with maroon, green and pink, at parts decorated with small green, red or black spots, over a black ground. The final design in this sheet is made up of semi-abstract roses with petals of various shades of pink and purple and green leaves over a ground that is partly blue and partly gray with black spots.
Artwork Details
- Title: Collection "Décors et Couleurs" Album No. 2, Planche 5
- Artist: Jean Burkhalter
- Artist: Rep. artist Jean Saudé (French)
- Publisher: Published by Editions Albert Lévy , Paris
- Published in: Paris
- Date: [ca. 1930]
- Medium: Pochoir
- Dimensions: Sheet: 15 1/2 × 12 1/8 in. (39.4 × 30.8 cm)
Album: 16 in. × 13 1/4 in. × 9/16 in. (40.7 × 33.6 × 1.4 cm) - Classifications: Books, Prints, Ornament & Architecture
- Credit Line: Rogers Fund, 1931, transferred from the Library
- Object Number: 1991.1073.38(5)
- Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints
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