Paul POIRET & Raoul Dufy - Lot 308

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Paul POIRET & Raoul Dufy - Lot 308
Paul POIRET & Raoul Dufy Circa 1925 / 1926 - Bianchini-Ferier Magnificent evening cape " Amphitrite " in gold laminated silk crepe, plain, fringed finish. (Small oxidation stain). Dimensions of the motif principale : approx. 160 x 170cm Length of the franges : 42cm approx. Bibliographie : Variation of the model exhibited at the Kyoto Costume Institute (n°AC9362 96-24-1) Variation of the model in the book " Raoul Dufy L'œuvre en Soie ", by Anne Tourlonias & Jack Vidal, published by Barthelemy - Avignon 1998, pages n°84-85 : " En 1925, with the Amphitrite embroidered shawl, he goes further in the impertinence. Madame Poiret from Wilde : "I remember the day, probably a Thursday morning, when Charles Bianchini came to present to my father the collection that included the pink and gold naiad shawl on a brown background. I was a dozen years old and my taste was not mûr : used to seeing slender women, I was shocked by those fat naked, hairy, slubby bathers and found no grace in them. "" " Nous dreamed of dazzling curtains and dresses decorated in the taste of Botticelli. Without measuring my sacrifice, I was giving Dufy, who was then just starting out in life, the means to realize some of his rêves ". Paul Poiret - Raoul Dufy's engravings quickly caught the eye of couturier Paul Poiret, who, seduced by the artist's decorative universe, offered to make fabrics for his fashion house. So in 1910 they set up a fabric printing workshop which they named " La Small Usine ", in which Dufy drew the patterns, engraved the woods used for printing, studied the necessary chemical techniques and sometimes even went so far as to print himself. It was in 1912 that the Lyon-based silk company Bianchini-Férier offered a contract to Raoul Dufy, so that the latter could freely produce textile prints for them. Raoul Dufy will continue his creations for both Paul Poiret and Bianchini-Ferier until 1928. » What echoes of this exciting period
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