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PROPERTY FROM A DISTINGUISHED PRIVATE EAST COAST COLLECTION
SONIA DELAUNAY (1885-1979)
Rythme couleur
Details
SONIA DELAUNAY (1885-1979)
Rythme couleur
signed and dated ‘Sonia Delaunay 1946’ (lower right)
oil on canvas
68 7⁄8 x 59 in. (175 x 150 cm.)
Painted in 1946
Rythme couleur
signed and dated ‘Sonia Delaunay 1946’ (lower right)
oil on canvas
68 7⁄8 x 59 in. (175 x 150 cm.)
Painted in 1946
Provenance
Arthur A. Cohen & Elaine Lustig Cohen, New York, by whom acquired directly from the artist.
Tamar J. Cohen, New York, by descent from the above.
Acquired from the above by the present owner on 10 March 2014.
Tamar J. Cohen, New York, by descent from the above.
Acquired from the above by the present owner on 10 March 2014.
Literature
J. Damase, Sonia Delaunay, London, 1972 (illustrated pl. 269).
A. A. Cohen, Sonia Delaunay, New York, 1975, no. 172 (illustrated).
A. A. Cohen, Sonia Delaunay, New York, 1975, no. 172 (illustrated).
Exhibited
Buffalo, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Sonia Delaunay: A Retrospective, February – March 1980, no. 20 (illustrated); 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, November – December 1980; Chicago, Art Institute, January – March 1981 and Montreal, Musée d’art contemporain, April – May 1981.
Urawa, The City Museum, Sonia Delaunay: La moderne, January – March 2002, no. 51, p. 71 (illustrated on the cover & p. 71); this exhibition later travelled to Hokkaido, Hakodate Museum of Art, April – May 2002; Iwaki, The City Art Museum, May – June 2002; Tokyo, Metropolitan Teien Art Museum, July – September 2002 and New Brunswick, Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers University, October – December 2002.
New York, Cooper-Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, Colour Moves: Art & Fashion by Sonia Delaunay, March - June 2011, pp. 25 & 190 (illustrated fig. 1, p. 24).
London, Tate Modern, Sonia Delaunay, October 2014 - February 2015, p. 276.
Urawa, The City Museum, Sonia Delaunay: La moderne, January – March 2002, no. 51, p. 71 (illustrated on the cover & p. 71); this exhibition later travelled to Hokkaido, Hakodate Museum of Art, April – May 2002; Iwaki, The City Art Museum, May – June 2002; Tokyo, Metropolitan Teien Art Museum, July – September 2002 and New Brunswick, Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers University, October – December 2002.
New York, Cooper-Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, Colour Moves: Art & Fashion by Sonia Delaunay, March - June 2011, pp. 25 & 190 (illustrated fig. 1, p. 24).
London, Tate Modern, Sonia Delaunay, October 2014 - February 2015, p. 276.
Further Details
Richard Riss and Jean Louis Delaunay have confirmed the authenticity of this work.
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