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This ca. 1924 watercolor by artist Sonia Delaunay<\/a>, showing her interior design for the dining room of her Paris apartment, is currently on display at Bard Graduate Center<\/a> in New York. Photo by Bruce M. White \u00a9 Pracusa
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A nearly century-old invitation to view the fashion<\/a> and textile<\/a> designs of abstract<\/a> artist Sonia Delaunay<\/a> (1885\u20131979) beckons potential clients into her vibrant world. \u201cIn her studio, towering above the rooftops of Paris,\u201d it reads, \u201cyou will find dresses, furniture, and fabrics: as your heart skips a beat \u2014 a rare occurrence indeed \u2014 you will know that you are seeing something new, something that in this year 1927, will transform your life into a work of art.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

A new exhibition explores the ways in which Delaunay sought to deliver on this promise over the course of her seven-decade career. The invitation, along with about 200 other Delaunay-related objects \u2014 many of which have never been shown publicly or are on display in the U.S. for the first time \u2014 are on view in \u201cSonia Delaunay: Living Art<\/a>,\u201d <\/em>at Bard Graduate Center<\/a> in New York through July 7.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Delaunay’s 1914 collage Solar Prism<\/em> is echoed by a 1924\u201325 cloche and scarf she created for her fashion atelier. Both are on view at Bard Graduate Center. Photos \u00a9 Pracusa (left and right) and by Bruce M. White (right)
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Delaunay was known for ignoring the distinction between fine art<\/a> and applied design<\/a>. Her body of work encompassed not only paintings<\/a> and prints<\/a> but also book illustrations, women\u2019s and men\u2019s fashions, costumes for theater and dance, film sets, wallpaper, furniture and interior decor. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

More than an expression of her prolific talent, Delaunay’s varied output was her way of erasing the boundary between life and art. \u201cFor her, in order to devotedly live<\/em> art, every object and surface required artistic realization,\u201d the show\u2019s co-organizers, Bard Graduate Center curator Laura Microulis and independent art historian Waleria Dorogova, explain in their introduction to the exhibition catalogue.<\/p>\n\n\n

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The artist at her Boulevard Malesherbes address, ca. 1925. Photo courtesy of Biblioth\u00e8que nationale de France
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Born Sara Elievna Stern in 1885 to a working-class Jewish family in Ukraine (then part of the Russian Empire), she was adopted as a child by a wealthy maternal uncle in St. Petersburg, who saw to her well-rounded education. There, she picked up the nickname Sonia. At the age of 18, she left Russia for Germany to study painting<\/a>, and in 1905, she landed in Paris, where she enrolled in art school. She soon dropped out but continued creating art, producing canvases strongly influenced by Fauvism<\/a>. Following a brief marriage to gallery owner Wilhelm Uhde, she married fellow artist Robert Delaunay<\/a> (1885\u20131941) in 1910. After the birth of her son, Charles, in 1911, she crafted a patchwork crib cover that she considered her first truly abstract piece.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

No matter the medium, Delaunay\u2019s passion was color. She and her husband were the main exponents of Orphism<\/a>, a branch of Cubism<\/a> defined by abstract compositions and bright shades. They saw their creations as experiments in Simultan\u00e9isme<\/em>, or Simultanism<\/a>, a color theory based on the work of scientist Michel Eug\u00e8ne Chevreul (1786\u20131889), who studied the ways in which a given hue can look different depending on the ones around it. The Delaunays noted that certain pairings seemed to generate a vibration in the eye of the beholder. They felt that this movement captured the dynamism of modern urban life. <\/p>\n\n\n

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With its graphic pattern, Delaunay’s ca. 1930 handbag design, also in the exhibition, still looks remarkably on-trend today. Photo \u00a9 Pracusa.
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After the upheavals of World War I and the 1917 Russian Revolution, both of which necessitated a few serious rearrangements of the couple\u2019s household (including moves and the loss of financial support from family in Russia), Delaunay retooled herself and opened a business. Keeping her devotion to color juxtaposition front and center, she launched a fabric and fashion atelier where she created textiles, wearable pieces, furniture and interior decor. In 1925, she trademarked the term Simultan\u00e9<\/em> to refer to her studio and its designs. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cDelaunay\u2019s Simultaneous fashions offered her patrons a direct connection to abstract art and a means to connect their own personal style to modern art<\/a>,\u201d Microulis tells The Study<\/em>. \u201cThis was further enhanced by her transmedial practice, which made Simultanism more accessible and perhaps ultimately more acceptable.\u201d Clients who may have found an abstract painting<\/a> intimidating or inaccessible could enjoy the bright pattern on a cloche-and-scarf set Delaunay created or the striped handbag she designed. In this way, she brought her art into their everyday lives.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Delaunay created this ca. 1923 sycamore sideboard, on view in the exhibition, for her apartment on Boulevard Malesherbes. Photo \u00a9 Les Arts D\u00e9coratifs\/Jean Tholance, \u00a9 Pracusa<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n

But it may be that Delaunay\u2019s ultimate masterpiece was her own life. With her famed Robe Simultan\u00e9e, a dress she crafted in 1913 from brightly colored fabric scraps, she intended to make herself into a living artwork. She also turned her home into an immersive world of pattern and color. Watercolors from 1924 depicting Delaunay\u2019s vision for the living and dining rooms of her apartment on Paris\u2019s Boulevard Malsherbes give attendees at the Bard show a view into her multihued domestic life. <\/p>\n\n\n

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Another of her furnishings for the Boulevard Malesherbes residence, also in the show, is this ca. 1923 patchwork chair. Photo \u00a9 Les Arts D\u00e9coratifs\/Jean Tholance, \u00a9 Pracusa<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n

Furniture she designed for the residence appears in the exhibition, as well \u2014 a 1923 armchair with patchwork upholstery (in surprisingly subtle shades of taupe) and a sideboard from the same year with diamond-pattern marquetry. But she didn\u2019t stop at the confines of her family home. She put her skills to use in other interiors, as well, sometimes collaborating with cabinetmaker Adolphe Chanaux<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Sonia Delaunay for Artcurial 1930 rug, 1970, offered by Thomas Gallery Ltd.<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n

\u201cSonia Delaunay designed whole environments that incorporated painting, furniture, textiles, fashion and art,\u201d says T. Thomas Gargiulo, whose Thomas Gallery Ltd.<\/a> specializes in 20th-century French and Italian decorative arts<\/a>. Delaunay\u2019s colorful abstract design on a textile or rug<\/a> could very well have been applied<\/a> to one of her canvases and hung on a wall or vice versa. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cHer processes are illustrated in her 1930 carpet<\/a>, where she uses bold, dynamic colors against bold, geometric forms,\u201d Gargiulo notes. While many women artists of the period were herded away from the fine arts and toward crafts (think Anni Albers<\/a>), Delaunay was able to do it all. \u201cIt was extremely rare for a woman designer to have such an important role in spearheading a holistic movement in both fine and decorative arts,\u201d the gallerist says. \u201cThis makes her achievements more compelling.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n

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Rythmes circulaires<\/em>, ca. 1980, by Sonia Delaunay, offered by Le Coin des Arts<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n

\u201cOverall, we love Sonia Delaunay for her free spirit and her unwavering determination to break down barriers between the arts,\u201d says Thadd\u00e9e Poliakoff, a specialist in prints whose Paris gallery, Le Coin des Arts<\/a>, holds several examples of Delaunay\u2019s work. Among her lithographs and etchings<\/a> is a porcelain plate<\/a> issued by Artcurial<\/a> in the 1970s. Poliakoff points out that its motif seems to create a fluid, circular movement reminiscent of dance. \u201cShe transcends the medium of painting through her application to the decorative arts, fashion, theater, dance and cinema. She was an outstanding colorist who left a fundamental mark on the 20th century and built a cultural legacy of her own.\u201d Looking to transform your life into a work of art? Delaunay’s designs may be the perfect place to start.<\/p>\n\n\n\t

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