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TitleDesign for a rug

Creator nameGray, Eileen

Creator nationality/cultureIrish

Creator roleDraftsman

Creation datec. 1922

Object typeDrawing

MaterialsPencil, watercolor, chalk, and gouache

LocationVictoria and Albert Museum, London

https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O166651/design-for-carpet-carpet-design-gray-eileen/

Accession numberE.534-1980

SubjectsDrawing, Irish--20th centuryWomen designersTextile design, AbstractModernism (Art)

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2. The Imagist

Frédéric Migayrou

Eileen Gray

In 1971, when Joseph Rykwert wrote his article reevaluating the work of Eileen Gray, there was little information available about her, no formal archive, and only a few known and scattered pieces of furniture. Yet Rykwert succeeded nevertheless in revealing that this relatively unknown woman was one of the major...

Author

Cloé Pitiot (Editor), Nina Stritzler-Levine (Editor)

PublisherBard Graduate Center

Related print edition pages: pp.62-75

Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-100142&redirecttoanchor=202037

Chapter subject tags:Gray, Eileen, 1878-1976Women designers--20th centuryModernism (Art)--FranceSlade School of Fine ArtModernism (Architecture)--FranceE.1027 (Roquebrune-Cap-Martin, France)

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