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In this border the designer plays with abstract geometric forms in an animated pattern, analogous to paintings such as Henri Le FauconnierÕs Mountaineers Attacked by Bears, 1910-12, which hangs in this MuseumÕs 20th-Century Galleries at the other end of the building.

 

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French maker
Border, ca. 1926
Cotton; net, embroidered with bugle beads

Gift of Edward Cella
1991.122.2

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