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Sonia Delaunay

French, born Gradizhsk, Russia (now Ukraine), active in France, 1885-1979

Sidney J. Waintrob (American, 1902–2002). Sonia Delaunay, 1965. Gelatin silver print, image area: 9 x 13 3/8 inches (22.9 x 34 cm). Collection Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York; Gift of the Waintrob Family, 1980 (P1980:5). © The Waintrob Project for the Visual Arts, Inc.

Works by This Artist

untitled from the portfolio Poesie de mots, poesie de couleurs, 1961

Sonia Delaunay
untitled from the portfolio Poesie de mots, poesie de couleurs, 1961

Sonia Delaunay
untitled from the portfolio Poesie de mots, poesie de couleurs, 1961

Sonia Delaunay
untitled from the portfolio Poesie de mots, poesie de couleurs, 1961

Sonia Delaunay
untitled from the portfolio Poesie de mots, poesie de couleurs, 1961

Sonia Delaunay
untitled from the portfolio Poesie de mots, poesie de couleurs, 1961

Sonia Delaunay
Poesie de mots, poesie de couleurs, 1961 (published 1962)

Sonia Delaunay
La Rose au Vent, ca. 1965

Sonia Delaunay
La Prose du Transsibérien et de la petite Jehanne de France (Prose on the Trans-Siberian Railway and of Little Jehanne of France), 1913

Sonia Delaunay, Blaise Cendrars
Danseuse, deuxieme version, 1916

Sonia Delaunay
Rythme coloré (Colored Rhythm), 1958

Sonia Delaunay
untitled from the suite Avec Moi-meme, 1970

Sonia Delaunay
untitled from the suite Avec Moi-meme (With Myself), 1970

Sonia Delaunay
untitled from the suite Avec moi-meme (With Myself), 1970

Sonia Delaunay
Composition, 1970-1975

Sonia Delaunay
Untitled, 1936-1974

Sonia Delaunay
Concentric Circles, 1968-1972

Sonia Delaunay
L'Horizontale, 1970

Sonia Delaunay

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Totem, 1970

Sonia Delaunay

No image available,
but we’re working on it
Joker, 1970

Sonia Delaunay

No image available,
but we’re working on it

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Sonia Delaunay, 1965

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Sonia Delaunay

Sonia Delaunay, 1965

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Sonia Delaunay

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Installation view of Sonia Delaunay: A Retrospective

Sonia Delaunay: A Retrospective

February 2, 1980–March 16, 1980

Installation view of Spotlight on the Collection—Artists in Depth: Picasso, Braque, Léger, Delaunay, with Pablo Picasso's The Artist and His Model, 1964, and Female Bather Playing, 1958

Spotlight on the Collection—Artists in Depth: Picasso, Braque, Léger, Delaunay

January 21, 2011–June 5, 2011

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February 2, 2017

Sidney J. Waintrob's Sonia Delaunay, 1965

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March 1, 2017

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