Sonia Delaunay rug based on 20th century Aubusson tapestries hand-knotted wool rug on cotton tram dimensions 3 x 2 m
Sonia Delaunay rug based on 20th century Aubusson tapestries. Contemporary modern rug after Sonia Delaunay. Dimensions: 300 x 200 cm Very good general condition. Hand-made and hand-knotted rug. Silky wool velvet, on cotton foundation. remarkable work and flexibility. Beautiful polychromy. Sonia Delaunay, born Sophie Stern or Sara Illinichtna Stern, born November 14, 1885 in Gradizhsk in Ukraine and died December 5, 1979 in Paris, is a French painter of Ukrainian origin.
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Sonia Delaunay, born Sophie Stern or Sara Illinichtna Sternnote 1, born November 14, 1885 in Gradizhsk, Ukraine and died December 5, 1979 in Paris2, was a French painter of Ukrainian originnote 2. Adopted by a maternal uncle, Henri Terk, whose name she took, she studied fine arts very little: drawing in Karlsruhe for two years, then in Paris at the Académie de la Palette in the Montparnasse district. She was naturalized French thanks to a first marriage with Wilhelm Uhde in December 1908. After a Fauvist period that was undoubtedly inspired by Vincent van Gogh and Paul Gauguin, she invented, with her second husband Robert Delaunay, a form of painting that Apollinaire defined by the vague term Orphism, which did not correspond to any real trendnote 3. Sonia and Robert Delaunay worked together above all on the search for pure color and the movement of simultaneous colors, a trend that inspired other painters after them, notably Fernand Léger and Jasper Johns. Increasingly oriented towards abstract art over the years, she created the Salon des réalités nouvelles in 1946 solely to promote abstraction. She left behind a rich body of work that also includes printed fabrics, artist's books, and haute couture gowns, including the famous Nancy Cunard dress. Her first textile work was a blanket for her son Charles. Opinions are divided on the appreciation of her textile work. Michel Seuphor thinks that she has perhaps been too confined to fashion: "I personally regret that for many years, Sonia Delaunay, instead of devoting herself entirely to painting, dispersed her talent by trying to introduce the simultaneous ideas of her painting into fashion."3 It was he who, by reducing the essence of Sonia Delaunay's work to her textile work, in fact discredited her painting, as Anne Montfort acknowledges.note 4 In a more recent assessment, Jacques Damase points out that the patterns invented on fabrics by Sonia Delaunay induced a new inspiration in painting: "It is not without importance for the historian that her works predate those of Mondrian."4, and that fabrics are still a source of inspiration for a whole generation of young painters.5 Always associated with her husband Robert in painting, fashion, or monumental adventures such as the fresco intended for the Palais des Chemins de Fer for the 1937 International Exhibition, she is often exhibited with him at the Centre national d'art et de culture Georges-Pompidou, to which she made several donations. While many museums around the world own her paintings, the majority of them have been shared in France between the Musée de Grenoble, the Musée d'art moderne de la ville de Paris, the Centre Pompidou, and the Bibliothèque nationale de France. | |