Sonia Delaunay-Terk
- Introduction
- Sonia Delaunay (14 November 1885 – 5 December 1979) was a French artist, who spent most of her working life in Paris. She formally trained in Russia and Germany before moving to France and expanding her practice to include textile, fashion, and set design. She co-founded the Orphism art movement, noted for its use of strong colours and geometric shapes, with her husband Robert Delaunay and others. She was the first living female artist to have a retrospective exhibition at the Louvre in 1964, and in 1975 was named an officer of the French Legion of Honor. Her work in modern design included the concepts of geometric abstraction, and the integration of furniture, fabrics, wall coverings, and clothing into her art practice.
- Wikidata
- Q232972
- Nationalities
- French, Russian
- Gender
- Female
- Roles
- Artist, Designer, Tapestry Designer, Textile Designer, Painter
- Names
- Sonia Delaunay, Sonia Delaunay-Terk, Sonia Delaunay-Turk, Sonia Stern, Sonia Terk, Sophie Delaunay-Terk, Sonia Elievna Delaunay, Sonia Elievna- Terk, Sonia Delaunay- Terk, Sonia Delaunay-Ferk, Sonia Delaunay- Ferk, Sonia Delone, Delaunay-Terk
- Ulan
- 500115510
Exhibitions
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505: Circa 1913
Ongoing
MoMA
Collection gallery
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509: Florine Stettheimer and Company
Fall 2019–Fall 2020
MoMA
Collection gallery
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The Value of Good Design
Feb 10–Jun 15, 2019
MoMA
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Designing Modern Women 1890–1990
Oct 5, 2013–Oct 19, 2014
MoMA
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Painting and Sculpture Changes 2013
Jan 1–Dec 31, 2013
MoMA
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Sonia Delaunay-Terk has
28 exhibitionsonline.
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Sonia Delaunay-Terk Announcement for La Prose du Transsibérien et de la Petite Jehanne de France 1913
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Sonia Delaunay-Terk La Prose du Transsibérien et de la Petite Jehanne de France (Prose of the Trans-Siberian and of Little Joan of France) 1913
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Sonia Delaunay-Terk Portuguese Market 1915
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Sonia Delaunay-Terk Robe Poeme No. 688 1922
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Sonia Delaunay-Terk Miss Mouth and Mr. Eye. Costume design for the play Le Coeur à Gaz 1923
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Sonia Delaunay-Terk Pajamas for Tristan Tzara 1923
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Sonia Delaunay-Terk Tristan Tzara with Monocle 1923
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Sonia Delaunay-Terk Robe Poeme No. 1329 1923
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Sonia Delaunay-Terk Robe Poeme No. 1328 1923
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Sonia Delaunay-Terk Zaoum. Costume design for the play Le Coeur à Gaz 1923
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Sonia Delaunay-Terk Yellow Dancer. Costume design for the play Le Coeur à Gaz 1923
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Sonia Delaunay-Terk Étude de Robe No. 1284 1926
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Sonia Delaunay-Terk Sonia Delaunay letterhead 1927
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Sonia Delaunay-Terk Sonia Delaunay-Terk letterhead c.1927
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Jean (Hans) Arp, Max Bill, Sonia Delaunay-Terk, César Domela-Nieuwenhuis, Vasily Kandinsky, Léo Leuppi, Richard Paul Lohse, Alberto Magnelli, Sophie Taeuber-Arp, Georges Vantongerloo, Various Artists 10 Origin 1942
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Sonia Delaunay-Terk Plate (folio 8) from 10 Origin 1942
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Charlotte Perriand, Ateliers Jean Prouvé, Nancy, France, Sonia Delaunay-Terk, Nicolas Schöffer Maison de la Tunisie Bench-Bookshelf 1952
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Various Artists, Jean (Hans) Arp, Giacomo Balla, Robert Delaunay, Sonia Delaunay-Terk, Albert Gleizes, Auguste Herbin, Vasily Kandinsky, Paul Klee, František Kupka, Fernand Léger, Alberto Magnelli, Piet Mondrian, Francis Picabia, Sophie Taeuber-Arp, Theo van Doesburg, Jacques Villon Art of Today, Masters of Abstract Art (Art d'aujourd'hui, maîtres de l'art abstrait), Album I 1953
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Sonia Delaunay-Terk Gouache from Art of Today, Masters of Abstract Art (Art d'aujourd'hui, maîtres de l'art abstrait), Album I 1953 (original executed in 1950)
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Sonia Delaunay-Terk Colored Rhythm 1953
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Sonia Delaunay-Terk Sonia Delaunay. Städt Kunsthaus Bielefeld, 14.9.-26.10.1958 1958
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Josef Albers, Aleksandr Archipenko, Carl Buchheister, Serge Charchoune, Sonia Delaunay-Terk, Farfa, Jean Fautrier, Natalia Goncharova, Raoul Hausmann, Marcel Janco, Joseph Lacasse, Mikhail Larionov, Stanton Macdonald-Wright, Alberto Magnelli, Emilio Pettoruti, Alfred Reth, Hans Richter, Victor Servranckx, Gino Severini, Georges Vantongerloo, Various Artists Futurists, Abstractionists, Dadaists: the Forerunners of the Avant-Garde, vol. I 1961–62, published 1962
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Sonia Delaunay-Terk Plate 5 from Futurists, Abstractionists, Dadaists: the Forerunners of the Avant-Garde, vol. I 1962
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Sonia Delaunay-Terk Untitled 1962
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Sonia Delaunay-Terk Simultané 1964
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Sonia Delaunay-Terk Rythmes-Couleurs 1966
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Sonia Delaunay-Terk Plate (page 11) from Rythmes-Couleurs 1966
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Sonia Delaunay-Terk Plate (page 17) from Rythmes-Couleurs 1966
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Sonia Delaunay-Terk Plate (page 23) from Rythmes-Couleurs 1966
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Sonia Delaunay-Terk Plate (page 29) from Rythmes-Couleurs 1966
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Sonia Delaunay-Terk Plate (page 35) from Rythmes-Couleurs 1966
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Sonia Delaunay-Terk Plate (page 39) from Rythmes-Couleurs 1966
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Sonia Delaunay-Terk Plate (page 43) from Rythmes-Couleurs 1966
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Sonia Delaunay-Terk Plate (page 47) from Rythmes-Couleurs 1966
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Sonia Delaunay-Terk Plate (page 47) from Rythmes-Couleurs 1966
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Sonia Delaunay-Terk Plate (page 47) from Rythmes-Couleurs 1966
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Sonia Delaunay-Terk Cover from Rythmes-Couleurs 1966
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Sonia Delaunay-Terk Color Rhythm No. 1921-1973 1973
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Sonia Delaunay-Terk Untitled 1968–77
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Sonia Delaunay-Terk Le Coeur à Gaz (The Gas Heart) 1923, published 1977
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Sonia Delaunay-Terk Double page half title from Le Coeur à Gaz (The Gas Heart) 1923, published 1977
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Sonia Delaunay-Terk Plate (page 10) from Le Coeur à Gaz (The Gas Heart) 1923, published 1977
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Sonia Delaunay-Terk Plate (page 14) from Le Coeur à Gaz (The Gas Heart) 1923, published 1977
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Sonia Delaunay-Terk Plate (page 22) from Le Coeur à Gaz (The Gas Heart) 1923, published 1977
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Sonia Delaunay-Terk Plate (page 25) from Le Coeur à Gaz (The Gas Heart) 1923, published 1977
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Sonia Delaunay-Terk Plate (page 30) from Le Coeur à Gaz (The Gas Heart) 1923, published 1977
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Sonia Delaunay-Terk Plate (page 25) from Le Coeur à Gaz (The Gas Heart) 1923, published 1977
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Sonia Delaunay-Terk Double page in-text plate (pages 38 and 39) from Le Coeur à Gaz (The Gas Heart) 1923, published 1977
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