Robert Delaunay

Sonia Delaunay, Paris (until circa 1957)
Rose Fried Gallery, New York
Private Collection, New Jersey (sale: Christie's, New York, 16th May 1990, lot 141)
Purchased at the above sale by the present owner 

Berlin, Kupferstichkabinett, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Linie, Licht und Schatten. Meisterzeichnungen und Skulpturen der Sammlung Jan und Marie-Anne Krugier-Poniatowski, 1999, no. 148, illustrated in colour in the catalogue
Venice, The Peggy Guggenheim Collection, The Timeless Eye. Master Drawings from the Jan and Marie-Anne Krugier-Poniatowski Collection, 1999, no. 159, illustrated in colour in the catalogue
Madrid, Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Miradas sin Tiempo. Dibujos, Pinturas y Esculturas de la Coleccion Jan y Marie-Anne Krugier-Poniatowski, 2000, no. 189, illustrated in colour in the catalogue
Paris, Musée Jacquemart-André, La passion du dessin. Collection Jan et Marie-Anne Krugier-Poniatowski, 2002, no. 167, illustrated in colour in the catalogue

Pierre Francastel & Guy Habasque, Robert Delaunay, Du Cubisme à l'art abstrait, Paris, 1957, no. 365

The collage element is securely affixed and there is a very gentle undulation in places. The collage is glued onto a card with four supported ring binder holes along the upper edge. There is a crease running along the centre, probably from previous folding, and towards the right section of the work. The upper and lower edges are slightly uneven and there are some fine creases to the left edges of the image with some associated paint loss. There is a pin hole to the lower right corner of the image and lower right corner of the support. There are some minor creases and associated paint loss to parts of the extreme edges of the black painted card. There are some paint losses to the blue pigment towards the lower right. The sheet is slightly time stained. Otherwise the work is in good condition.
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