Sonia Delaunay (1885-1979) - "Euterpe"

Sonia Delaunay, Euterpe. Photolithographic reproduction (7-color offset) of Sonia Delaunay's original work chosen by the artist before her passing to illustrate the theme "Euterpe" the Muse of lyric poetry and music, in the series "The Nine Muses" by Bolaffiarte. carried out for the series "The Alphabet" by Bolaffiarte. On 5000 copies it was posthumously impressed with a rubber stamp the artist's dedication signature. Our copy no. 2045 In excellent condition. Rare to find together with the magazine. Professional packing. Take advantage of combined shipping to save on postage. Auction without reserve!

Sonia Terk Delaunay (in Ukrainian Соня Терк?, Sonja Terk; Odessa, 14 November 1885 – Paris, 5 December 1979) was a Ukrainian-born French naturalized painter. Born in Odessa, Ukraine, but spent her childhood in Hradys'k, a village near Kremenčuk. She initially studied in Saint Petersburg and in 1903 attended a drawing course in Karlsruhe, Germany. In 1906 she moved to Paris, where she painted works inspired by Paul Gauguin and Vincent van Gogh and where, in 1910, she married the painter Robert Delaunay. Already oriented toward a painting of pure color, Sonia joined her husband in research on color and the refraction of light, in which the dynamic effect is expressed by the only modulations of color and light that give the work a lyrical tone, arriving at the movement called orphism (or Orphic Cubism; a term deriving from Orpheus, the mythical musician of Greek mythology). Sonia Terk sought to take orphism beyond the boundaries of painting: starting from 1913 she produced fabrics with simultaneous contrasts, abstract creations of paper and fabric and printing types for books in which color values and typography differed and with vertical text printed. Between the two wars, Sonia created the first abstract dresses and joined her husband in some large decorations for the Paris Universal Exposition of 1937. Sonia's undisputed domain remained the art of tapestry and textiles, which she profoundly renewed by replacing traditional decorations with geometric motifs of startling chromatic intensity, typical of her painting. In 1927, to explain the meaning of her own work (the fabrics and the “simultaneous” dresses), she wrote "L'Influences de la peinture sur le mode"[1], in which she explained that "a tint that seems uniform is formed by the sum of a myriad of different tints" and the decomposition of tints into multiple elements, taken from the colors of the prism.[1] From this conception derived dresses made essentially of colors, with simple cuts and straight silhouettes offering perfectly flat fields to best express their potential for relation and interference. After World War II she continued to exhibit in major shows her works of abstract art. Sonia Terk Delaunay died on December 5, 1979 in Paris. In March 1960, the Galleria d'Arte Moderna in Turin dedicated an exhibition to Robert and Sonia Delaunay, featuring 107 works by the two artists[4]. In April 2006 a show dedicated to Sonia Delaunay was held in Bellinzona, Switzerland (Canton Ticino), at the Villa dei Cedri Museum.[5] In October 2014 a large retrospective opened at the Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris in Paris, displaying about 400 works. In spring 2015 the same exhibition was presented at the Tate Gallery in London.