Formes et Couleurs, Planche 13

Thirteenth 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 three designs with semi-abstract floral motifs and birds. The first design is made up of large semi-abstract flowers, possibly tulips, colored with blue, orange, pink and shades of blue over a purple ground. The second design, of octagonal shape, consists of several doves, colored with white and gray, and with outlines executed in a darker shade of gray, flying in front of clouds colored with green, pink, and shades of purple, under an intense blue sky. The final design is made up of semi-abstract roses, colored with purple and green, and smaller rosettes, colored with pink and with dark-green leaves, over an orange ground with green vertical stripes.