| Sonia Delaunay |
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1885 - 1979 Emigrated form Russia to Paris in 1905, joining Picasso, Matisse, Braque, Rouault, and Vlaminck in the remaking of art in the early moments of the Post-Impressionist era. She married Robert Delaunay in 1910, and joined with him in the development of Orphism, a movement based in Cubism but determined to bring new lyricism and colour to the rather severe works of Picasso and Braque. During the 1920s, she focused upon bringing this new artistic lyricism into the world of high fashion, transforming fabrics for fashion into a moveable artistic feast. In the 1930s, she returned to a renewed focus on painting, joining the Abstraction-Creation group in seeking to create an art based upon non-representational elements, often geometrical, and continuing to focus on colour as central to painting. The group was trans-national, and including among its members Barbara Hepworth, Wassily Kandinsky and Piet Mondrian. In 1963 she donated 58 of he own woks and 40 of he husband's to the Musee National d'Art Moderne, Paris, and became the first woman ever to be exhibited at the Louvre during her lifetime. |
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Abstract Composition 1970 ed75 Lithograph 76x59 £1,300 |
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| Bleu, Blanc, Rouge Lithograph 1950 ed 100 50x65 £1200 framed SOLD |
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| Untitled abstract Pochoir* from the folio Rythmes-Couleurs 1966 ed 100 50x35 unsigned £750 SOLD *see printing processes |
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Tissue
De Robe Et Fond Orphiste
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La Terra
Impareggiabile 2 |
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La Terra
Impareggiabile 1
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