Lot 183
  • 183

Sonia Delaunay

Estimate
20,000 - 30,000 USD
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Description

  • Sonia Delaunay
  • Rythme couleur
  • Signed Sonia Delaunay (lower center)
  • Gouache on paper
  • 22 1/2 by 16 7/8 in.
  • 57 by 43 cm

Provenance

Private Collection, Paris

Exhibited

Buffalo, Albright-Knox Gallery; Pittsburgh, Carnegie Institute; Houston, The Museum of Fine Arts; Atlanta, The High Museum of Art; New York, The Grey Art Gallery; Chicago, Art Institute of Chicago; Montreal, Musée d'Art Contemporain, Sonia Delaunay: A Retrospective, 1980-81, illustrated in the catalogue
Barcelona, Galerie Manuel Barbié, Sonia Delaunay, 2006-07, illustrated in the catalogue

Condition

Executed on cream wove paper and taped to a window mat along the perimeter on the verso. There are slight smudges to the charcoal text and a few faint studio stains on the recto and verso. Colors are strong and bright and the work is in excellent condition.
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