Idées 1, Plate 7
The plate contains three designs executed with tones of purple and gray. The first design is made up of overlapping scales, colored with red, orange, gray, and shades of purple, and vertical stripes with irregular undulating borders, colored with light purple. The second design is made up of diagonal strips of oval frames, colored with purple, containing semi-abstract busts of women figures, with the hair made up of dots or clovers, colored with reddish-pink, separated by undulating diagonal stripes, colored with hot pink, and with bows and arrows, also colored with reddish-pink, and half-moons, colored with white, over a lilac ground. The final design is made up of semi-abstract bundles of seaweed, colored with olive green, separated by semi-abstract corals, outlined with purple, and semi-abstract seahorses, colored with red, over a dark bluish-gray ground.
Artwork Details
- Title: Idées 1, Plate 7
- Artist: Maurice-Jacques-Yvan Camus (French, born Angers 1893)
- Printer: A. Calavas (French) , Paris
- Publisher: Librairie des Arts Décoratifs , Paris
- Published in: Paris
- Date: ca. 1933
- Medium: Pochoir
- Dimensions: Sheet: 15 in. × 11 1/16 in. (38.1 × 28.1 cm)
Album: 15 1/4 × 11 13/16 × 11/16 in. (38.8 × 30 × 1.8 cm) - Classifications: Books, Prints, Ornament & Architecture
- Credit Line: Jane E. Andrews Fund, in memory of William Loring Andrews, 1933, transferred from the Library
- Object Number: 1991.1073.39(1.7)
- Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints
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