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Mohnköpfe (Poppyheads) (Dress or Furnishing Fabric)

Koloman (Kolo) Moser, 1900

1.2 m × 1.83 m

Almost as tall as a doorway. It comes to about the height of the person standing beside it.

Against things you know the size of

Height: 1.83 m
Width: 1.2 m
Medium: Silk, wild silk, and cotton, warp-float faced 15:1 satin weave self-patterned by ground weft floats; woven on loom with Jacquard attachment; right selvage present
Kind: Textile
Made in: Vienna
Where the measurement comes from: Measured by the museum. The dimension is the one recorded by the institution that holds the work.
As the museum records it: 182.9 × 113 cm (72 × 44 1/2 in.)
Why this differs from the record: Recorded as 1.13 m × 1.83 m. Hung to match the photograph.
Credit: Purchased with funds provided by Mrs. Julian Armstrong, Jr.

Five questions, answered from its own record. What is AGAI?

How big is it?: 1.2 m × 1.83 m. Almost as tall as a doorway. Measured by the museum.
When was it made, and when is it everyone’s?: Made 1900. It is in the public domain, and The Art Institute of Chicago publishes it for open use.
Whose is it?: Everyone’s to see. It is held by The Art Institute of Chicago: Purchased with funds provided by Mrs. Julian Armstrong, Jr..
How was it made?: Silk, wild silk, and cotton, warp-float faced 15:1 satin weave self-patterned by ground weft floats; woven on loom with Jacquard attachment; right selvage present, made in Vienna, Modernism.
Who speaks for it?: Its record at The Art Institute of Chicago. Measured by the museum. This gallery adds nothing it cannot cite.

One email. The smallest thing in the collection, the largest, and two that hang well together.

Scored on colour, shape, era and scale, the same way the gallery hangs them.