Formes et Couleurs, Planche 9

Ninth plate of pochoir pattern book with loose leaves titled "Formes et Couleurs: Vingt Planches en Couleurs Contenant Soixante-sept Motifs Décoratifs" (Forms and Colors: Twenty Colored Plates Containing Sixty-Seven Decorative Motifs), designed by Auguste H. Thomas and edited by Albert Lévy, published in Paris by Librairie Centrale des Beaux-Arts around 1930. The album is composed of one title page and 20 plates with several designs, numbered 1-20. The plates are stored inside a reconstructed black portfolio with title pochoir label on the front cover. The designs in the album are possibly for textiles and contain a variety of geometric motifs, birds and flowers, all 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 plate consists of four designs with semi-abstract floral motifs. The design is made up of interlacing branches with leaves, colored with aquamarine and green, and bundles of semi-abstract flowers, colored with shades of purple and dark blue, over a cream ground. The second design is made up of alternating, large scrolling leaves, colored with olive green and outlined with purple, flanked by abstract flowers, colored with pink and purple with offsetting leaves colored with gray and dark green over a green ground.The third design is made up of hanging bundles of rosettes, colroed with shades of purple and peach, and elongated, semi-abstract leaves, colored with purple and green, and thin, yellow festoons, over an orange ground. The fourth design is made up of large semi-abstract flowers, outlined with black and shades of pink, over a pattern with semi-abstract leaves, outlined with shades of green, over a cream ground.