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SONIA DELAUNAY Group of 5 pochoirs on fabric.
Each circa 1920. Each approximately 450x300 mm; 17 3/4x11 7/8 inches. All signed in ink on the mats.
According to Delaunay's own account, her initial foray into color theory based design began in 1911, when she was making a blanket for her infant son comprised of small pieces of fabric sewn together, like she had seen in the houses of Russian peasants when she was a child (Delaunay was born in the Ukraine and lived in St. Petersburg until 1905, when she moved to Paris).
She was soon applying this color based design to aspects of Cubism prevalent in Paris during the early 1910s, espoused by both Sonia and her husband Robert Delaunay. In 1913, Guillaume Apollinaire coined the term Orphism to describe the Delaunays' version of Cubism. Delaunay opened a fashion studio together with Jacques Heim at Paris in 1924.
