Eileen Gray (1879-1976)

Eileen Gray was one of the most important designers of the early Twentieth Century, and is today regarded as a pioneering woman practitioner of architecture and design in both the Modernist and the Art Deco movements.
Born into an Irish aristocratic family, Eileen Gray began her studies in painting at the Slade School of Art in London before she moved to Paris at the turn of the century where she would come to create iconic tubular designs such as the famous Bibendum chair and the E-1027 table, which are still influential today.

This gouache is a design for the Roquebrune rug, part of a series of rugs designed by the artist in the 1920s and 1930s for various interior projects.