Sonia Delaunay Cloche + Scarf (w. cert of auth)
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Sonia Delaunay Cloche + Scarf (w. cert of auth)
About the Item
Dr Sherry Buckberrough is one of the world's authorities on Delaunay. In 1992, she hand carried the cloche/scarf to Paris to do research at Mme. Delaunay's estate for an upcoming book. It took about a year and a half for the final outcome, but Jean Louis Delaunay- the grandson of SD- authenticated the pieces and a copy of the certificates of authenticity are included in the images..
cloche
- Length around base of cloche - 22”
- Length from front to back – 16.5”
- Length of back wing across – 11”
- Length of front across – 9.5”
scarf
- Length of back of scarf – 49”
- Sides of scarf – 29.5”
- Back to peak – 24.5”
- Length of design – 17”
ABOUT THE DESIGNER (excerpts from Wikipedia.com)
Sonia Delaunay (November 14, 1885- December 5, 1979) was a Jewish-French artist who, with her husband Robert Delaunay and others, cofounded the Orphism art movement, noted for its use of strong colors and geometric shapes. Her work extends to painting, textile design and stage set design. She was the first living female artist to have a retrospective exhibition at the Louvre and in 1975 was named an officer of the French Legion of Honor.
Her work in modern design included the concepts of geometric abstraction, the integration of furniture, fabrics, wall coverings and clothing.
In 1911 Sonia made a patchwork quilt for Charles' crib, which is now in the collection of the Musée National d'Art Moderne in Paris. This quilt was created spontaneously and uses geometry and color.
"About 1911 I had the idea of making for my son, who had just been born, a blanket composed of bits of fabric like those I had seen in the houses of Russian peasants. When it was finished, the arrangement of the pieces of material seemed to me to evoke cubist conceptions and we then tried to apply the same process to other objects and paintings," Sonia Delaunay [2]
Contemporary art critics recognize this as the point where she moved away from perspective and naturalism in her art. Around the same time, cubist works were being shown in Paris and Robert had been studying the color theories of Michel Eugène Chevreul, they called their experiments with color in art and designsimultanéisme. Simultaneous design occurs when one design, when placed next to another, affects both; this is similar to the theory of colors (Pointillism, as used by e.g., Georges Seurat) in which primary color dots placed next to each other are "mixed" by the eye and affect each other. Sonia's first large scale painting in this style was Bal Bullier (1912-13), a painting known for both its use of color and movement.
The Delaunays' friend, poet and art critic, Guillaume Apollinaire coined the term Orphism to describe the Delaunays' version of cubism in 1913. It was through Apollinaire that Sonia met friend and collaborator, poet Blaise Cendrars in 1912. She illustrated his poem La prose du Transsibérien et de la Petite Jehanne de France (“The Prose of the Trans-Siberian and of Little Jehanne of France”) about a journey on the Trans-Siberian Railway, by creating a 2m long accordion type of book. Using simultaneous design principles the book merged text and design. The book, which was pretty much sold by subscription, created a stir amongst Paris critics. The simultaneous book was later shown at the Autumn Salon in Berlin in 1913 along with paintings and other applied artworks such as dresses, and it is said that Paul Klee was so impressed with her use of squares in her binding of Cendrars' poem that they became an enduring feature in his own work.
In 1914 they traveled to the Iberian Peninsula where they lived for roughly six years while the First World War raged in Europe. In Portugal Sonia and Robert met with several Portuguese artists, including Amadeo de Souza-Cardoso, with whom they had an intense friendship. Her most important work from that period is The Market at Minho. The Delaunays were in Barcelona when the Russian Revolution occurred. Realizing that they would no longer receive special support from her family, Sonia concluded that she would have to make a living from applied arts and her career in design and theatre began.
In 1920 Sonia returned to Paris and in 1924 she opened a fashion studio together with Jacques Heim. In 1925 she participated in Exposition Interationale des Arts Decoratifs et Industriels Modernes (Art Deco) in Paris together with Vadim Meller, Aleksandra Ekster, Nathan Altman and David Shterenberg. Her work extends to painting, textile design and stage set design. She was the first living female artist to have a retrospective exhibition at the Louvre in 1964 and in 1975 was named an officer of the French Legion of Honor. Sonia Delaunay-Terk died in 1979 in Paris. Her work in modern design included the use of geometric abstraction and the integration of furniture, fabrics, wall coverings and clothing.
Jazz expert Charles Delaunay is her son.
Delaunay's painting Coccinelle was featured on a stamp jointly released by the French Post Office, La Poste and the United Kingdom's Royal Mail in 2004 to commemorate the centenary of the Entente Cordiale
- Designer:Sonia Delaunay
- Brand:Sonia Delaunay
- Place of Origin:
- Period:
- Material Notes:wool felt hat and silk scarf with wool felt applique
- Condition:Excellent.
- Seller Location:Los Angeles, CA
- Reference Number:1stDibs: U0906234942
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