Sonia Delaunay

SONIA DELAUNAY (Odessa, 1885 - France, 1979).
Cotton velvet or similar.
Measurements: 286 x 110 cm.
With her characteristic synthetic style, in this piece Delaunay forms a geometric composition, where she combines different lines and colors. It was in the 1920's when she began to experiment with fabric, however, it was in the 1930's when she stopped making distinctions between the canvas and the pictorial format, merging both.
Sonia Delaunay (born Sonia Ilínichna Stern) was a key painter and designer of 20th century abstraction and co-founder of simultaneism with Robert Delaunay. Trained between St. Petersburg, Germany and Paris, where she studied at the Académie de la Palette, her early work was influenced by expressionism and post-impressionism, soon evolving towards fauvism. After their marriage in 1910, both artists turned towards abstraction, Sonia excelling especially in the decorative arts with a vibrant language based on color. Although she returned to painting in 1912, she achieved great recognition throughout Europe as a designer. During the First World War she lived in the Iberian Peninsula, even collaborating with the Ballets Russes. Since 1921, back in Paris, she developed an intense international career. His recognition was consolidated from the fifties onwards, with retrospective exhibitions and distinctions such as the Legion of Honor in 1975. Today his work is part of important museums such as the Museum of Modern Art or the Reina Sofia Museum.