Collection "Décors et Couleurs" Album No. 2, Planche 4

Pochoir pattern book, titled "Collection 'Décors et Couleurs' Album No. 2: Soixante-dix motifs décoratifs en dix-huit planches" (Collection 'Designs and Colors' Album No. 2: Seventy decorative motifs in eighteen plates), with Art Deco designs, probably for textiles, created by Jean Burkhalter and published in Paris by Éditions Albert Lévy, probably in the second half of the 1920s or the early 1930s. The book consists of a title page and 18 plates numbered 1-18, each with several designs, bound with dark blue linen boards. The designs contain a variety of geometric, abstract and semi-abstract motifs executed in various colors, some of them including natural-inspired figures such as birds and flowers. All of them are 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 fourth plate of the album presents two designs with semi-abstract natural motifs. The first design contains two large semi-abstract flowers with petals colored with shades of pink and brown, one of them with brown and black pistils, and large semi-abstract leaves executed in two shades of green, over a black and bluish-gray ground, in some parts decorated with bright green glitches and in some parts with scattered bluish-gray shuttle shapes. The second design is made up of abstract forms colored with burgundy, green, purple, black and yellow that form a group of abstract branches with flowers and leaves over a blue and purple ground.