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Ogilvie's seemingly effortlessly executed design in ink and gouache wash has a wonderful sense of spontaneity and movement, whilst also achieving a repeatable modernist pattern. Likely a design for fabric.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn gouache with pen and ink. 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This is 'Spring' from Lucien Babaut's series Les Quatres Saisons.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePochoir was a stencilling technique made popular in France from 1925 after publication of Jean Saudé's treatise, Traité d'Enluminure d'Art au Pochoir. The innovative technique developed in response to the proliferation of machine printing and the poor quality of colour reproductions in publishing. It was often used in French Fashion Journals to illustrate costume styles and set the tone for haute couture in the first half of the 20th century.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOften the outline of the image was lithographed, then successive layers of colour were painted on using watercolour or gouache, applied to stencils with a brush called a pompon. 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