Art Deco Era Printed Linen Textile by Paul Dumas: C1920 France

Dating from the 1920s Art Deco era, a printed textile by Paul Dumas.

A print on linen of naive birds perched on meandering blue and black outlined branches with unfurling dark green leaves. Encircled flowers in baskets are set amongst the foliage. The linen is an upholstery weight.

Paul Dumas was a Parisian designer and manufacturer of wallpapers and textiles active between 1906 and 1978.

Dumas had a studio at 24-26 Rue Notre
Dame des Victoires in Paris, and a printing factory in Montreuil-sur-bois, to the east of Paris. Dumas purchased a disused printing factory in Montreuil-sur-bois in 1906, and then built a larger factory on its land in 1913.

Dumas was a designer of scenery and draperies for the fancy-dress balls held by Paul Poiret.

The Montreuil-sur-bois factory produced wallpapers for Poiret's Atelier Martine, Paul Follot, Lina de Andrada, and Lucie Renudaut, among others.
Textiles produced by Paul Dumas are included in the collection of the Cooper Hewitt Design Museum. Wallpapers produced by Dumas in included in the collections of the Musée des arts décoratifs de Paris and the Victoria and Albert Museum, London and the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

This textile would work very well in most interior settings.

Measurements:
132 x 87cm

Condition:
In excellent antique condition with an overall patina of age as you would expect in a textile of this antiquity.