ID 1163406
Lot 11 | SONIA DELAUNAY (1885-1979)
Estimate value
£ 1 000 000 – 1 500 000
Rythme-Couleur (no. 132)
signed and dated ‘Sonia Delaunay 1953’ (lower right); signed again 'Sonia Delaunay' (on the stretcher)
oil on canvas
44 ¾ x 57 ½ in. (113.5 x 146 cm.)
Painted in 1953
Provenance
The artist, until 1979.
Galerie Istvàn Schlégl, Zurich.
Acquired from the above by the present owner in 1987.
Exhibited
Bielefeld, Städtisches Kunsthalle, Sonia Delaunay, September - October 1958, p. 44, no. 207 (illustrated p. 47).
Turin, Galleria Civica d'arte Moderna, Robert e Sonia Delaunay, March - April 1960, no. 95.
Bad Godesberg, Galerie Schütze, Sonia Delaunay, May – June 1965.
Saint-Paul de Vence, Fondation Maeght, Dix ans d'Art vivant, 1945-1955, April - May 1966, no. 30.
Paris, Musée National d'Art Moderne, Rétrospective Sonia Delaunay, 1967, no. 156.
Paris, Galerie Denis René, Sonia Delaunay, November 1968, no. 17 (illustrated).
Nuremberg, Kunsthalle, Biennale, Konstruktive Kunst: Elemente und Prinzipien, April - August 1969 (illustrated).
Turin, Galleria d’arte Martino, November 1970, no. 18.
Rome, Il Collezionista d'Arte Contemporanea, Sonia Delaunay: Opere 1908-1970, December 1970 - January 1971.
Nancy, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Sonia Delaunay, Robert Delaunay, June – September 1972, no. 159.
Grenoble, Musée de Grenoble, Sonia Delaunay – A Retrospective Exhibition, January – March 1974.
Antwerp, International Cultureel Centrum, Sonia Delaunay, January – March 1975.
Tokyo, National Museum of Modern Art, Robert Delaunay, Sonia Delaunay, November - December 1979, no. 77.
Buffalo, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Sonia Delaunay: A Retrospective, February – March 1980, no. 23, p. 117 (illustrated p. 185); this exhibition later travelled to Pittsburgh, Carnegie Institute, April – June 1980; Houston, The Museum of Fine Arts, June – August 1980; Atlanta, The High Museum of Art, September - October 1980; New York, The Grey Art Gallery, New York University, November – December 1980; Chicago, Art Institute, January – March 1981; and Montreal, Musée d’art Contemporain, April – May 1981.
Pori, Finland, Art Museum, Formes vivantes - Ranskan nykytaieen perinne 1951-1983, December 1983, no. 37 (illustrated); this exhibition later travelled to Helsinki, Kunsthalle, January 1984; and Malmö, Konsthall, March - May 1984.
| Artist: | Sonia Delaunay-Terk (1885 - 1979) |
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| Auction house category: | Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings, Paintings |
| Artist: | Sonia Delaunay-Terk (1885 - 1979) |
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| Auction house category: | Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings, Paintings |
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