Lot 365
  • 365

Sonia Delaunay-Terk

Estimate
30,000 - 40,000 EUR
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Description

  • Sonia Delaunay-Terk
  • Projet pour un plafond à l'Exposition Internationale "Arts et Techniques", Paris, 1937
  • signed Sonia Delaunay and dated 1937 (lower left)
  • gouache on transfer paper laid down on cardboard
  • 51 x 45,6 cm; 20 x 18 in.

Provenance

Jacques Damase, Paris
Private collection, France

Exhibited

Cologne, Galerie Gmurzynska, Retrospective on the occasion of her 90th birthday, 1975, no. 45, illustrated in the catalogue p. 33
Brussels, Jacques Damase Gallery, Hommage à Sonia Delaunay pour son quatre-vingt dixième anniversaire, 1975, illustrated in the catalogue p. 82
Les Sables d'Olonne, Musée de l'Abbaye Sainte Croix, Collection Jacques Damase, 1979, illustrated in the catalogue p. 13
Paris, Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Robert-Sonia Delaunay, 1985, no. 287, illustrated in the catalogue p. 265

Literature

Jacques Damase, Sonia Delaunay, Rythmes et couleurs, London, 1972, illustrated p. 248
Arthur Allen Cohen, Sonia Delaunay, 1975, no. 174, illustrated n.p.
BolaffiArte, février 1980, reproduit en couverture
Bernard Dorival, Sonia Delaunay, sa vie, son œuvre 1885-1979, Paris, 1980, illustrated p. 107
Stanley Baron, Sonia Delaunay, sa vie, son oeuvre 1885-1979, Paris, 1995, no. 58, illustrated p. 110

Condition

Executed on transfer paper, laid down on card, taped to the overmount along the upper edge. There is a number of flattened creases consistent with the mounting process. There is paint shrinkage in the dark green pigment and scattered losses throughout .There is some abrasion to the lower part of the left edge of the artist's mount. This work is fairly good condition.
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