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"La Moisson" (The Harvester)

Designer Raoul Dufy French
Manufacturer Atuyer, Bianchini et Férier French
ca. 1912
Not on view
The artist Dufy met the couturier Paul Poiret in 1911. With Poiret’s encouragement and financial backing, Dufy created a series of bold monochromatic textiles, hand block-printed in a manner suggestive of both eighteenth-century toiles de jouy and the abstract geometries of modern painting. Poiret used these principally, but not exclusively, for clothing; they soon attracted the attention of the commercial manufacturer Atuyer, Bianchini et Férier, who, much to Poiret’s chagrin, subsequently co-opted their production.

Artwork Details

Object Information
  • Title: "La Moisson" (The Harvester)
  • Designer: Raoul Dufy (French, Le Havre 1877–1953 Forcalquier)
  • Manufacturer: Atuyer, Bianchini et Férier (French, founded Lyons, 1888)
  • Date: ca. 1912
  • Medium: Printed linen
  • Dimensions: 70 1/2 × 47 1/2 in. (179.1 × 120.7 cm)
  • Classification: Textiles-Printed
  • Credit Line: Purchase, Edward C. Moore Jr. Gift, 1923
  • Object Number: 23.116
  • Curatorial Department: Modern and Contemporary Art

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