Artist: Sonia Delaunay (1885 - 1979)
Nationality: Ukrainian
Movement: Orphism
Media: Painting
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Biography:
Born in the Ukraine as Sonia Terk Stern and raised in St. Petersburg, Sonia Delaunay studied in Germany before attending the Academie de la Palette in Paris. She had a brief marriage to art critic, Wilhelm Uhde, simply to remain in France. However, in 1910 she met husband Robert Delaunay and founded the Orphism movement. The couple also designed ballet sets for Diaghilev’s Ballet Russes. Sonia Delaunay was also interested in Art Deco textile designing.

Artworks in Museum Collections: (29)
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Henri Fantin-Latour - Portrait of Sonia 1890 oil on canvas National Gallery of Art French
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Mark Rothko - Head of Woman (Sonia Rothkowitz) c. 1932 oil on canvas National Gallery of Art American
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Sonia Gechtoff, Blue Window, Red Border, 1975
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Sonia Lewitzka, Danses Ukrainiennes, 19th - 20th century
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Robert Delaunay, Saint Severin, 1909
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N.J.B. Choconain-Delaunay, Patch box and cover, 1782
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Nicolas Delaunay, Le Billet Doux, 18th century
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Nicolas Delaunay, Qu"en dit l"Abbe?, 18th century
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Nicolas Delaunay, The March of Silenus, 18th century
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Robert Delaunay, Vignette, 18th - 19th century
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Robert Delaunay, Le Malheur Imprevu, 18th - 19th century
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Robert Delaunay, Elle n"avait pas achevÈ, le vase Ètait sur ses lËvres, 18th - 19th century
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Robert Delaunay, C"est lui c"est Eliezer, Rachel revoit fon premier Èpoux, 18th - 19th century
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Robert Delaunay, Elle reconnait....elle jette un cri: sa tete retombe a l"instant, 18th - 19th century
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Artist: Jules Elie Delaunay Title: The Angel of Death; Peste a Roma Date: about 1869
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Robert Delaunay, J"aurais long-temos ÈcoutÈ, si la jeune femme, en m"appercevant, 18th - 19th century
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Unidentified artist, Les evangiles des dimanches et fÍtes de l*annÈe prepared by M. l"AbbÈ Delaunay(Paris: L. Curmer, 1864), vol. 3 (of 3), 1864
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Unidentified artist, Les evangiles des dimanches et fÍtes de l*annÈe prepared by M. l"AbbÈ Delaunay (Paris: L. Curmer, 1864), vol. 1 (of 3), 1864
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Unidentified artist, Les evangiles des dimanches et fÍtes de l*annÈe prepared by M. l"AbbÈ Delaunay (Paris: L. Curmer, 1864), vol. 2 (of 3), 1864
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L. Curmer, illuminated text [Matthew 22: 15-21] on p. 295 in the book Les evangiles des dimanches et fÍtes de l*annÈe prepared by M. l"AbbÈ Delaunay(Paris: L. Curmer, 1864), vol. 2 (of 3), 1864
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Nicholas Nixon, American, Born in 1947 Sonia White with 7th grade string class Boston Latin
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Nicolas Delaunay, Les hasards heureux de l"escarpolette (The Happy Accidents of a Child*s Swing), after the painting by Jean HonorÈ Fagonard of 1767, now in the Wallace Collection, London, circa 1767
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Robert Delaunay - Windows 1912 encaustic on canvas The Museum of Modern Art French
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Robert Delaunay - Mme. Mandel 1923 oil on canvas University of California, Berkeley Art Museum French
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Jules Elie Delaunay - The Plague in Rome 1869 oil on wood panel Minneapolis Institute of Arts French
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Robert Delaunay - Champs de Mars: The Red Tower 1911/1923 oil on canvas The Art Institute of Chicago French
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Robert Delaunay - Simultaneous Contrasts: Sun and Moon 1913 oil on canvas The Museum of Modern Art French
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Robert Delaunay - The Three Windows, the Tower and the Wheel 1912 oil on canvas The Museum of Modern Art French
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Temple Gardens, 1920 Paul Klee (German, 1879-1940)Gouache and traces of ink on paper; H. 7-1/4,

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Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris: Robert Delaunay: 1906 - 1914
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JEWISH MUSEUM: Berlin Metropolis: Jews And The New Culture, 1890-1918
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Sprengel Museum: Cubisme - Cubism: An Artistic Watershed in Europe 1906-1926
Around then, the Moscow collector Ivan Morossov also bought Picassos. Villa Schschukin in the grand Snamenski Lane was open to the public from 1909, providing many Moscow artists, such as M. Larionov and N. Gont-scharova, David Buliyuk, Kasimir Ma...
Christie's: PRINTS CHARMING: 20th Century Prints
Two etchings printed with tone by Lucien Freud will be on offer in the British section of the sale, Man Resting (1988) may fetch up to £4,000 while Two men in the Studio (1989) carries an estimate of £1,000-1,200. An ...
Haus der Kunst: Hand Work: Senta Connert, Jochen Flinzer, Leni Hoffmann, Charles Long, Peter Rösel
The exhibition attempts to show artistic positions that give these 'handicraft' or 'children's' activities an equally modern, radical and conceptual meaning as work with the video ...
Jewish Museum: Paris in New York: French Jewish Artists in Private Collections
The works in this exhibition are from private collections, supplemented with examples from The Jewish Museum’s collection. The collectors of these works share both an admiration for their beauty and an abidi...
Wilhelm-Hack-Museum: Der Blaue Reiter: The Freeing of Color
The exhibition has been curated by the Museums director, Dr. Richard Gassen and will show approximately 200 pieces by 13 artists. The outstanding quality of the exhibition lies in its unique conception as well as in the excellent collaboration ...
Metropolitan Museum of Art: Hans Hofmann at The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Kept out of the army during World War I because of a lung ailment, Hofmann opened an art school in Munich in 1915. For the next 53 years, Hofmann supported himself primarily through his teaching. ...
Ketterer Kunst: And the Moral of the Story...Lovis Corinth's Lithographs Depicting the Fable of Reinecke Fuchs are the Highlights of the Auction - Modern Art on Paper
Very colourful is a Komposition mit Figurengruppe (Composition with a group of figures) by Adolf Hölzel, which is depicted on the cover of the catalogue. The pastel by the teacher of important artists such as Willy Baumeister, Oskar Schlemmer and ...
Palazzo Ducale: Arti and Architettura: 1900 - 2000
A utopian adventure, encroaching sometimes into “archisculpture”, whose protagonists – artists and architects from Kazimir Malevich to Vladmir Tatlin, from Antonio Sant'Elia to Giuseppe Terragni, from Ludwig Mies van der Rohe to Piet Mondrian, f...

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