Toys
Textile Design
c.1960 (made)
c.1960 (made)
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Five female dolls, in colourful, patterned dresses, four with their fronts to the viewer and one with its back turned, The design is on a piece of stiff paper that is supported by a larger sheet of cream-coloured paper.
Object details
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| Title | Toys (assigned by artist) |
| Materials and techniques | Bodycolour with sgraffito decoration on paper |
| Brief description | Jacqueline Groag. "Toys". Textile design showing five dolls in a row. British, early 1960s. |
| Physical description | Five female dolls, in colourful, patterned dresses, four with their fronts to the viewer and one with its back turned, The design is on a piece of stiff paper that is supported by a larger sheet of cream-coloured paper. |
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| Credit line | Given by Margaret Timmers |
| Bibliographic reference | The following excerpt is taken from Galloway, Francesca, 'Post-War British Textiles'. Robert Marcuson Publishing, London, 2002:
"Jacqueline Groag, a Czech by birth, was a talented textile designer, as well-known and as influential as [Lucienne] Day in the 1950s; she continued designing textiles until the 1980s. Groag was a student of Josef Hoffmann and Franz Cizek in Vienna and designed for the Wiener Werkstätte before moving to Paris in 1929. There she designed dress fabrics for Chanel, Schiaparelli and Lanvin. She married the architect and follower of Adolf Loos, Jacques Groag, whose preference for severe functionalism in architecture had some influence on her style. They moved to London in 1939 where her success must have been immediate given the number of textiles she designed for the 'Britain Can Make It' exhibition at the V&A in 1946. The columnar design, launched by David Whitehead for the Festival of Britain in 1951, was adapted from an earlier design commissioned from Groag by the Rayon Design Centre in 1948." |
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| Accession number | E.945-2000 |
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| Record created | March 1, 2001 |
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