SONIA DELAUNAY

The Russian-born artist Sonia Delaunay, who with her husband, Robert Delaunay, was a leading light of the Cubist splinter group Orph ism, branched out after the First World War into a distinctive career of her own. Between 1920 and 1930, a decade full of activity a nd success, she produced some of the most striking and original fabric designs of modern times. She was the inventor of abstract des ign for fabrics, and her materials were the rage among fashionable circles in the Art Deco era.She dressed Gloria Swanson and variou s French...[Llegir més]