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ab. 1926 Woman's evening dress (embroidery designed by Natalia Goncharova, made by the firm of Myrbor, Paris)

silk with silk appliqué and metallic thread and wool yarn embroidery

Silk evening ensemble from French couture house Myrbor (see other Myrbor posts here), 1929. Myrbor employed Natalia Goncharova and Sarah Lipska, Eastern European artists who had worked as set designers with Leon Bakst and whose designs employed abstract and Cubist motifs. (I’ve posted Goncharova’s and Lipska’s work before.)

Marie Cuttoli

The Modern Thread from Mirò to Man Ray

Cindy Kang  With contributions by Laura Pirkelbauer, Laura L. F. Sevelis, Virginia Gardner Troy, K. L. H. Wells, and Bruno Ythier

Yale University Press, New Haven/London 2020, 160 pages, 100 col.ill       ISBN  978-0300251319 , Distributed for the Barnes Foundation

euro 52,50

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The Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia (February 23–August 23, 2020)

A book tracing the career of the textile designer Marie Cuttoli. Marie Cuttoli (1879-1973) lived in Algeria and Paris in the 1920s and collected the work of avant-garde artists such as Georges Braque, Joan Miro, and Pablo Picasso. In the ensuing decades, she went on to revive the French tapestry tradition and to popularize it as a modernist medium. This catalogue traces Cuttoli's career, beginning with her work in fashion and interiors under her label Myrbor. She subsequently commissioned artists including Braque, Le Corbusier, Fernand Leger, Man Ray, Miro, and Picasso to design cartoons to be woven at Aubusson, a center of tapestry production since the 17th century. Today these cartoons-paintings and collages by canonical artists-are often understood as autonomous works of art, but this catalogue uncovers their original purpose as textile designs. Beautifully illustrated with rarely exhibited works by giants of European modernism, Marie Cuttoli reveals the significant contributions of a shrewd and visionary woman as well as the role of the decorative arts in the development of the movement.

03/09/20

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Evening Dress

Natalia Sergeyevna Goncharova; Retailed by Myrbor 

c.1926

Evening Dress

Myrbor

1924

Outfits by Martial and Armand, Myrbor, Talbot, Goupy, and Yvonne Davidson.

Illustrations by A. Soulié.