Lyon, Atelier Travard (attributed), circa. 1920-1930. Broadsheet (61.0 x 50 cm). Original pochoir with additional, extensive gouache painting on olive green paper.

The French firm of Travard was a major designer of wallpaper and textile used for curtains and furniture. Their designs made during the 1920's, rank among the most beautiful Art Deco designs. The designers used various templates in their compositions, and a wide variety of motifs and colours. This one (without Travard blind-stamp, but found among a set of highly similar sheets, many of which with this stamp), shows an irregular pattern of colourful calyxes, in red, orange, yellow, white, and blue. Pencilled guide lines. Four pinpoint holes in the margins, a few, tiny chips in the edges, otherwise fine, the colouring fresh and bright.