Curatorial Narrative The creation of Prismes-36 in 1931 situates Emile-Allain Sguy within the avant-garde circles of Paris, where artists were actively negotiating the intersections of modernity and tradition. Sguy’s unique contribution to the Art Deco movement lies in his utilization of industrial materials and processes to produce complex geometric forms. In Prismes-36, the artist eschews traditional brushwork, instead relying on a mechanized technique that imbues the work with a sense of precision and exactitude. The resulting visual field is characterized by a dynamic interplay between abstract forms, their edges sharp and incisive.When enlarged to its standard dimensions of 44×61, Prismes-36 asserts itself as a designed object with pronounced spatial properties. The palette of blue, red, and white maintains its crispness, even in the presence of larger-than-life proportions, while the chromatic structure continues to oscillate