Oct 11, 2012 - Sale 2289

Sale 2289 - Lot 109

Price Realized: $ 1,680
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,200 - $ 1,800
DELAUNAY, SONIA. Maquette for cover of "Robes Poèmes" by Jacques Damase. 285x210 mm; 11 1/2x8 1/2 inches, in red, blue, black, and white gouache, with pencil, on board. [Np, likely Paris or Milan, 1969]
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signed by delaunay on recto with indication, in French, to widen the design and the descriptive note "couverture du livre." The book was published in Milan in 1969 by Edizioni del Naviglio in an edition of 650 and contained pochoirs of Delaunay's designs for dresses and costumes created between 1918 and 1928, with text by Demase after Guillaume Apollinaire and Blaise Cendrars.