Collection "Décors et Couleurs" Album No. 2, Planche 9

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 ninth plate of the album presents three designs with semi-abstract floral motifs. The first design is made up of a large bundle of semi-abstract flowers and leaves executed with pink, shades of yellow and yellowish-brown over a background with abstract patches colored with black, green, purple and brown. The second design is made up of a bundle with semi-abstract flowers and leaves colored with gray, pink, cream and brown over a background colored with lilac, light blue, black and green. The final design consists branches with overlapping brown, yellow and pink semi-abstract leaves and semi-abstract bell-shaped flowers colored with red and tan with elongated pistils colored with red, tan or yellow, over a black ground with blue and gray highlights just below the bundle.