Suggestions, Pl. 20
Twentieth plate of album with 20 pochoir pattern plates with designs for textiles and carpets, titled "Suggestions pour étoffes et tapis: 60 motifs en couleur" (Suggestions for stuffs and carpets: 60 color motifs), created by E.A. Séguy and published in Paris by Massin & Cie in 1923. The plate contains three designs with semi-abstract motifs inspired from nature, executed with lively colors. The first design is made up of alternating bell-shaped flowers, colored with white and shades of blue, over a black background with vertical, reddish-brown stripes. The second design is made up of alternating rows with bundles of abstract flowers, colored with blue, brown and black, and leaves, colored with green, tied with a thin, blue ribbon forming a bow around their stems, flanked anove and below by large, semi-abstract leaves made up of diagonal, light brown stripes. The third design consists of a checked pattern made up of alternating white squares with roundels executed with two shades of light brown, containing two vertical eyeshapes, colroed with white, separated by a brown pearl, and decorated with thin, ribbon bows, and squares filled with alternating green and blue stripes and black and blue squares.
Artwork Details
- Title: Suggestions, Pl. 20
- Designer: Designed by Emile-Allain Séguy (French, 1877–1951)
- Publisher: Published by Ch. Massin & Cie. , Paris
- Date: 1923
- Medium: Pochoir
- Dimensions: Sheet: 17 5/8 × 12 1/2 in. (44.7 × 31.8 cm)
Album: 18 1/16 × 13 1/4 × 9/16 in. (45.9 × 33.6 × 1.5 cm) - Classifications: Books, Prints, Ornament & Architecture
- Credit Line: Rogers Fund, 1926, transferred from the Library
- Object Number: 1991.1073.80(20)
- Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints
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