Collective Threads

In the late 1940s, Andreeva initiated an innovative twist to her floral designs by exploring the effects of directly imprinting flowers or vegetables onto paper. Using everyday items from her household—like potatoes sliced in half and scored with a crisscross pattern, or a cabbage cut in half and inked—she created spectacular Arte Povera type geometric and floral patterns.

AA.8 → Anna Andreeva, Imprints, 1948-49. Mixed media on paper, 61.5 × 46.5 cm.

AA.7

Anna Andreeva, Floral design, 1948. Coloured pencil on paper, 23 × 25 cm.

AA.13 / AA.14

Anna Andreeva and colorist Lugovskaia, Passport for fern pattern, no. 2685, 1957? Passport for floral pattern, no. 2741, 1957–59? Earliest variants of a printed passport. Paper and silk textile, 24 × 23 cm and 25 × 22.5 cm.

AA.15 → Anna Andreeva, Floral pattern on a beige ground, pattern no. 2093, pattern 1954, production 1961? Silk textile, 00 × 00 cm.

AA.16 (→ p. 35)

Anna Andreeva and colorist Lugovskaia, Black Chrysanthemums, pattern no. 2453, 1956. Passport paper and silk textile, 00 × 00 cm.

AA.17 (→ p. 36)

Anna Andreeva, Doodle, pattern no. 3148, 1960. Silk textile, 00 × 00 cm.