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拍品專文
Established in 1942 by Czech émigrés Zika and Lida Ascher, Asher Ltd. sought to unite the complex worlds of fabrics, art and fashion. Throughout the 1940s they established a working relationship with many of the most prominent artists of the day, including British artists Moore, Hepworth, Sutherland, Nicholson, Piper, as well as international artists to include De Staäl, Calder, Derain, Cocteau and Picasso. The consequence of this relationship was a review of the definitions between art and industry, epitomised by the series of silk squares produced on a limited basis between 1944 and 1953.
Examples of this Moore design, printed through necessity on government-surplus parachute nylon, were exhibited at the Victoria & Albert Museum's Britain Can Make It exhibition, 1946 and at the First Exhibition of Artist Designed Squares, Lefèvre Gallery, London, September 1947.
Examples of this Moore design, printed through necessity on government-surplus parachute nylon, were exhibited at the Victoria & Albert Museum's Britain Can Make It exhibition, 1946 and at the First Exhibition of Artist Designed Squares, Lefèvre Gallery, London, September 1947.