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[TEXTILE] Helen MAI PSEUDONYM OF JEANNE LARTIGUE (PARIS, AUGUST 12, 1903 - PARIS, JANUARY 1995) - Set of 20 original projects painted with gouache and ink, geometric, floral and figurative textile models, for fashion or furniture textiles. In sheets, mounted on white canson or drawn on the sheet. Dimensions of the supports: +/- 500 x 325 mm. Drawn on canson, some on crepe paper, 2 on the support. Various dimensions: from 195 x 195 to 310 x 200 for those drawn on support. Signed or stamped by the artist, annotations in graphite in the margin. Marked in ink or graphite in the lower right corner. Set of eclectic textile models, on varied support, for furnishing or fashion ("all ranges") and intended to be printed. The patterns are geometrical, floral, figurative, abstract or decorative, of more or less large scale and realized on different colored backgrounds. Some of the designs are on a connector and 5 are titled. 3 projects are on crepe paper of various colors. Two designs are made up of thin black and white lines and form geometric and decorative patterns, and one is enhanced with gray and white gouache lines. The third design is organized in a colored frieze. 2 projects are of African inspiration and mix gouache, chalk, brushed texture evoking wood and are animated with small geometric patterns. The colors are in shades of brown and gray. The large format is signed. Set of 6 projects of patterns in black and white on pink or white background. The compositions are geometric and decorative, some evoke the mesh of a lace. They are made in black ink and are all enhanced with small touches of color. Two of them are stylized silhouettes of birds in flight. Series of 8 painted patterns, 5 of which are titled, "PICASSO" is a pattern on a yellow background evoking the style of the artist with a composition made of rectangular compartments in which are represented elements that evoke a bull, a horse, human silhouettes, a tree etc. The motif is on a yellow background and is structured with friezes made up of small white squares surrounded by blue and green. "BLASONS" is a very fine motif realized with black ink and enhanced with purple gouache showing a composition made of stylized and superimposed coats of arms on which are visible many small symbols. "CAGLIOSTRO" is an abstract motif in bright pink on a black background composed of two parts, the first is an abstract drawing made of tangled sinuous lines with small crosses in the background and the second part is very geometric and made of a regular alignment of small crosses. "YOUR HAPPINESS" is a floral pattern with a dominant pink and mauve color, painted with gouache. The flowers are organized in a frieze and are interspersed with elements that evoke a weaving of fiber or branch. Some of the flowers are highlighted in light blue and the background is structured by fine red hatching. The project is signed by the artist. "NETWORK" is a pattern in brown tones on a light background that evokes lace. The composition is organized around denser abstract elements made of lace stitches and the background is lighter and composed of lines that form a network of loops. TOGETHER 20 PROJECTS. Helen MAI pseudonym of Jeanne LARTIGUE (Paris, August 12, 1903 - Paris, January 1995). The numbers 261 to 275 present a very beautiful selection of original gouaches for projects intended for the textile of furnishing or clothing as well as projects of handbags. The vast majority of these models are signed by her or stamped with her Parisian address on Boulevard Raspail. Abstract and cubist painter, designer, ceramist, mosaicist, sculptor, etc.. Helen Mai, a multi-talented artist, relative of the famous photographer Jacques Henri Lartigue, has created numerous ceramic pieces, mosaics and enamels, models for the decorative arts and fashion (designs for African inspired fabrics). Many of her works have been acquired by Jean Lelong. She has exhibited at the Salon d'Automne, La Grande Chaumière and the Lucy Krogh Gallery. In the field of decoration, she is best known for having practiced encaust painting, thus rediscovering the secrets of the ancient frescoes of Pompeii or Fayoum. This technique with burnt colors, used by the great masters of Greek and Roman painting and then Byzantine. Helen Mai has rediscovered this painting, using a hot iron instead of a brush to apply a colored wax to fix it on the support, by burning it. We find different techniques mixed in the projects presented here (bags, then fabrics and papers). Same richness of inspiration in all these patterns that feed on the nat
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