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Carpet Design

1919-1929 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Slender rectangular design on rough-textured paper. Two narrow parallel stripes, one russet-brown, one white, near the centre of the design along one axis, on a pale brown ground. A lemon yellow stripe along one long edge and a small parabola of the same colour in an opposite corner. A small complete margin to the design left uncoloured. Mounted on a piece of dark brown card.


Object details

Categories
Object type
Materials and techniques
Gouache on paper
Brief description
Eileen Gray. Design for a carpet. French, 1920s
Physical description
Slender rectangular design on rough-textured paper. Two narrow parallel stripes, one russet-brown, one white, near the centre of the design along one axis, on a pale brown ground. A lemon yellow stripe along one long edge and a small parabola of the same colour in an opposite corner. A small complete margin to the design left uncoloured. Mounted on a piece of dark brown card.
Dimensions
  • Design height: 23.5cm
  • Design width: 7.2cm
  • Brown card mount height: 28cm
  • Brown card mount width: 18.7cm
Credit line
Acquired from the Artist in 1973.
Object history
Purchased from the artist.
These carpet designs were probably made for her Gallery, the 'Gallerie Jean Dessert' in Paris.
Subject depicted
Bibliographic references
  • Dieter Roelstraete, ed. All That Is Solid. Five Reflections on Materialist Spirituality in Contemporary Art Mechelen: MuHKA, 2009. ISBN: 978-90-209-8318-0.
  • Taken from Departmental Circulation Register 1973
Collection
Accession number
CIRC.238-1973

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Record createdSeptember 8, 2008
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