Formes et Couleurs, Planche 4

Fourth plate of pochoir pattern book with loose leaves titled "Formes et Couleurs: Vingt Planches en Couleurs Contenant Soixante-sept Motifs Décoratifs" (Forms and Colors: Twenty Colored Plates Containing Sixty-Seven Decorative Motifs), designed by Auguste H. Thomas and edited by Albert Lévy, published in Paris by Librairie Centrale des Beaux-Arts around 1930. The album is composed of one title page and 20 plates with several designs, numbered 1-20. The plates are stored inside a reconstructed black portfolio with title pochoir label on the front cover. The designs in the album are possibly for textiles and contain a variety of geometric motifs, birds and flowers, all 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 plate consists of two designs with semi-abstract natural motifs. The first design is made up of two intersecting Greek scrolls, colored with purple and pink, and with semi-abstract leaves, colored with brown and green, over a black ground. The second design is made up of black scrolling branches with large semi-abstract flowers, colored with cream and ourlined with pink, black and bluish-green, and leaves, colored with cream and green, and outlined with black and bluish-green, over an orange ground.