Formes et Couleurs, Planche 20

Twentieth 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 motifs with flowers and leaves. The first design is made up of a large bull's head with horns on the upper part of the design, colored with shades of green and orange, from which hang purple festoons with interlacing garlands of semi-abstract leaves, colored with shades of green and brown, and fruits, colored with red and yellow, over a green fround. The second design consists of a large bundle with semi-abstract flowers and leaves, executed with shades of purple, pink, yellow and green, over a hot-pink ground. The final design, possibly for a border, consists of a strip of squares containing semi-abstract flowers, colored alternatingly with aquamarine, black and orange, and purple, green and orange, over mustard-yellow grounds, separated by thin, lavender stripes.