Sonia Delaunay
Sonia Delaunay
2003 Exhibition at the Musée de Lodève
The Simultaneous Exhibition 1923 - 1934
Extract from the text in the catalogue of the exhibition at the Musée de Lodève by Annette Malochet (Art historian)
"No, strictly speaking it is not a series of "tissue projects" as has often been said, either out of mental laziness or because Sonia Delaunay did not want to develop enough the theoretical meaning of all her "colour ranges", even though many of her gouaches were used, often well afterwards, for the publication of certain fabrics. We can therefore imagine how - and why - it was possible for certain research series to be called "projects" when this was chronologically and, worse, conceptually wrong.
What the artist subsequently wrote about this period has certainly been read too lightly:
"In 1923, I was approached by a house in Lyon interested in drawings by tissues. I produced 50 drawings in colour with pure, rhythmic geometric shapes. For me, they were and remain colour scales, the basis of the essential concept of our painting (Robert's and mine). All this would compare to a great deal of research and study. My research was purely pictorial and was a plastic discovery which then served both of us for our painting."
Projet de tissus
(Unique piece)
Gouache
Passepartout size 65 x 80 cm / 1920-1930
Stamped by artist's estate / Stamp on the back from Robert Perrier Collection and Sonia Delaunay Collection.
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