ECART INTERNATIONAL ''BLACK MAGIC'' RUG, designed by Eileen Gray, wool, size approx 239cm x 234cm dated circa 1980. While studying at the Slade School of Art, London, Eileen Gray was introduced to Oriental Lacquer Technique on her visits to the V&...
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Lot 220
Estimate: €1,000 - €1,500
Result: €2,200
Lot 220
Estimate:
€1,000 - €1,500
ECART INTERNATIONAL ''BLACK MAGIC'' RUG, designed by Eileen Gray, wool, size approx 239cm x 234cm dated circa 1980. While studying at the Slade School of Art, London, Eileen Gray was introduced to Oriental Lacquer Technique on her visits to the V&A Museum. She spent a number of years mastering the technique that she would go on to use in her furniture designs. But in 1908 on a trip to the foothills of the Atlas Mountains with her friend Evelyn Wyld, Gray learned how to dye and weave wool yarn which along with the lacquer became her main medium of expression. In 1910 she opened a weaving workshop with Wyld at 17-19 rue Visconti and began designing rug patterns. Each design was drawn and painted in gouache before taking on the form of the rug and as she became more known as a designer than an artist Gray used the medium for her research on abstraction. The design for ''Black Magic'' was executed circa 1930 and the gouache and pencil drawing is currently included in the Eileen Gray Exhibition at the Pompidou Centre, Paris. Ref: Centre Pompidou, Exhibition Catalogue , ''Eileen Gray February 20- May 20,2013''
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