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Sonia Delaunay 1885-1979
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Description
- Sonia Delaunay
- Composition
- signed Sonia Delaunay and dated 1942 in ink, lower right; numbered 126 in ink, lower left
- pencil and gouache on Japan paper
- 7 1/2 by 5 n.
- 19.1 by 12.5 cm.
Provenance
Rose Fried Gallery, New York
Ethel Steuer Epstein, New York
(sold: Parke-Bernet Galleries Inc., New York, May 4, 1967, lot 80)
acquired at the above sale by Jesse Liebowitz, Great Neck, L.I.
by descent to the present owner
Catalogue Note
Sonia's husband Robert Delaunay died in October 1941 in the South of France; shortly after she moved to Grasse, where she stayed, in the company of Hans and Sophie Tauber-Arp and Alberto Mangelli, until after the war ended. Her preoccupations were the memorialization, through exhibitions, of her late husband's career, and a struggle to make ends meet, which she achieved by selling her household possessions and her husband's paintings when she could.