Sonia Delaunay (French/Ukrainian, 1885-1979) "Le Rythme VI," 1966, color etching, signed and numbered: 98/100, framed. Size:18'' x 15.5'', 46 x 39 cm (sight); 27'' x 23.5'', 69 x 60 cm (frame). Provenance: The Robert L. Pfannebecker Collection. Artist Biography: Sonia Delaunay's career spanned the European continent, allowing her to reap the riches of the exciting advances by many avant-garde art groups. Born and raised in Russia, she was educated in Germany and then France, making Paris her home just as modern art was finding a new way to find meaningful subject matter not dependent on realistic depictions of the world. Sonia was one of the primary propagators of Orphism (a movement founded by her husband Robert), a theory wedding color to form in order to achieve visual intensity on the surface of the canvas. Delaunay extended the visual exploration of this theory to a range of fields beyond painting, developing an entire career in textile design.

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