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Sonia Delaunay. La prose du transsibérien et de la petite Jehanne de France (The Prose of the Trans-Siberian and of Little Jehanne of France)

Sonia Delaunay

La prose du transsibérien et de la petite Jehanne de France (The Prose of the Trans-Siberian and of Little Jehanne of France)

Published 1913–14

Accordion-format book with pochoir (designs by Delaunay); letterpress text printed in several typefaces and four colors; publisher’s original parchment cover with design by Delaunay in oil paint and crayon

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Author Blaise Cendrars (Frédéric Sauser)
Publisher Éditions des Hommes Nouveaux, Paris [Blaise Cendrars]
Medium Accordion-format book with pochoir (designs by Delaunay); letterpress text printed in several typefaces and four colors; publisher’s original parchment cover with design by Delaunay in oil paint and crayon
Dimensions unfolded: 6 ft. 5 1/2 × 14 in. (196.9 × 35.6 cm); book (closed): 7 1/4 × 4 1/8 × 5/8 in. (18.4 × 10.5 × 1.6 cm)
Printer Imprimerie Crété, Paris
Edition 150 planned, at least 110 produced (numbered inconsistently). Eight numbered 1–8 on parchment; twenty-eight numbered 9–36 on Japon paper; 114 numbered 37–150 on simili Japon paper; at least forty-four with painted cover of parchment or black goat leather. This copy no. 140
Credit Gift of Helen and Sam Zell
Object number 466.2022
Department Drawings and Prints

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Sonia Delaunay

Sonia Delaunay

French, born Ukraine. 1885–1979 53 works online

Red and green, blue and orange, yellow and violet: these color combinations were vital to the artistic practice and theory of Sonia Delaunay, whose vast body of work—paintings and drawings, prints and illustrations, textiles and furnishings, clothing and accessories—enthralled its earliest viewers, users, and wearers.

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