Lot 366
  • 366

Sonia Delaunay-Terk

Estimate
6,000 - 8,000 EUR
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Description

  • Sonia Delaunay-Terk
  • Projet de costume pour le ballet Les Quatres Saisons, Hiver
  • signed Sonia Delaunay, titled 4 saisons (L'Hiver) and dated 1924 (lower right)
    bears the inscription 1719 and 8 (lower left)
  • gouache, watercolour, ink & pencil on paper
  • 27,2 x 20,5 cm; 10 5/8 x 8 in.

Provenance

Private collection, France

Condition

Executed on cream wove paper, not laid down, attached to the mount along the upper edge. There are a few pinholes to the centre of the upper edge and a further pinhole towards the upper right corner. There are some paper remnants on the reverse along the extreme edges. There are some faint studio marks in the background. There is a small pigment loss, possibly original, to the model's proper right leg. This work is in very good condition.
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