Featured Designer Sketch Signed 1922

Any help is appreciated, thank you!

Size: 45 cm x 32 cm

 

Hi! Hi! I've taken the liberty of reposting all your photographs as full image so they're easier for everyone to see.

Debora

 

I think I'd refer to those as fashion illustrations. What part of the world did you find them in?

Debora

 

It's one paper, with drawings on both sides.
I found it in Hungary, but it's probably from Germany. I bought it at a flea market.

Geostar

 

Well, it's certainly a fun find. And helpful it's dated.

Debora

 

Since it is double sided, it may have come out of a fashion designers sketch book.

 

Marker, watercolor and graphite fashion design sketches. Someone was dreaming of Haute Couture!

Vogue has a great article of 1922 fashion illustrations so you can see what Paris was dreaming up at that time. (Illustrations are more finalized presentation pieces than the workable design sketches you have.)
https://www.vogue.com/article/is-it-1922-all-over-again-in-fashion/amp

Your artist definitely used marking pens of some type with this piece (the streaked black on back, the thin lines and terminal pooling), which weren't really a thing in 1922 so I wonder if this was created later and marked "1922" as the intended time period for the design? A costume, historical exploration, homage, etc.

 

That's a thought. Does look like marker. And signature initial looks contemporary too.

Debora