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Object Timeline

1920	Work on this object began.
1929	Work on this object ended.
1980	We acquired this object.
2014	We photographed this object.
2024	You found it!

Textile (USA)

This is a Textile. It was designed by Léon Bakst. It is dated 1920–29 and we acquired it in 1980. Its medium is printed silk. It is a part of the Textiles department.

A subdued silk screen-printed textile panel with a black ground that pops with vibrantly-colored, repeating vertical rows of stylized, magenta and mauve and lemon and orange round flowers, possibly sweet williams or phlox, which are accented by smaller floral varieties in blue, mauve, yellow, and orange, with sage green stems and leaves. The linear floral arrangements undulate horizontally with movement and are crossed vertically with columned trellises that are weaving with tumbling, carnation-like orange and yellow flowers, such that a repeating grid, quilt-like pattern is formed, whereby each floral square repeats twenty times.

Object ID #907130243
silk, twill weave; screen printed.
Lent by The Art Institute of Chicago, Gift of Robert Allerton, 1924.184.
34.2016.5

Its dimensions are

H x W: 21.3 x 98.4 cm (8 3/8 x 38 3/4 in.)

Cite this object as

Textile (USA); Designed by Léon Bakst (Russian, born Belarus, 1866–1924); printed silk; H x W: 21.3 x 98.4 cm (8 3/8 x 38 3/4 in.); 1980-35-1

Short URL http://cprhw.tt/o/2CT38/
Accession Number 1980-35-1
Object ID 18512215