Original fabric design by Sonia Delaunay for haute-couture textile supplier Robert Perrier

A$12,000 · Offered by Douglas Stewart Fine Books

Circa 1942. Gouache on paper, 260 x 180 mm; numbered by the artist in pencil at upper right 167/2 ; framed; accompanied by a copy of a typed document by Sonia Delaunay (circa 1972) recording her sale of a total of 1,244 gouache fabric designs to M. Robert Perrier, 26 rue Norvins, Paris, 75018, in 1942; the document authenticates these designs for M. Perrier, and records that 115 of them were lent by M. Perrier for exhibitions in Mulhouse (May, 1971) and Nancy (September, 1972). As early as 1927, in a lecture titled The Influence of Painting on the Art of Clothes , Sonia Delaunay observed: A movement is now influencing fashion, just as it influences interior decoration, the cinema, and all the visual arts, and it overtakes everything that is not subject to this new principle which painters have spent a century seeking; we are only at the beginning of these new colour relationships, still full of mysteries to unravel, which are at the base of a modern vision. Damase, Jacques, Sonia Delaunay : Fashion and fabrics (London : Thames Hudson, 2014, p. 59). The career of Russian-born colourist Sonia Delaunay spanned seven decades, from the Belle Epoque to the 1970s. After studying in Germany, in 1905 she settled in Paris, where she would remain for most of her life. From around 1911, along with her husband, Robert Delaunay, she pioneered a particular branch of Cubism known as Simultanism (or Orphism, as it was termed by Apollinaire), which was based on the colour theory developed in t

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