The Ukrainian artist Sonia Delaunay (1885-1979) was a key figure in the Parisian avant-garde. Together with her husband, the painter Robert Delaunay, she undertook an artistic adventure based on contrasts of colour and the dissolving of form through light that led towards abstraction.

Sonia Delaunay. Art, design and fashion is the first monographic exhibition on the artist in Spain and aims to reveal the full extent of her multi-disciplinary artistic practice. Paintings and designs for clothes and textiles are shown alongside her innovative collaborations with poets and set designers. The exhibition also pays particular attention to the period when the artist and her family lived in Madrid, arriving there exactly 100 years ago.

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Images

Imágen 0 del carrusel Sonia Delaunay, The Bal Bullier
Imágen 1 del carrusel Sonia Delaunay. Simultaneous Dress
Imágen 2 del carrusel Miniatura
Imágen 3 del carrusel Sonia Delaunay, Flamenco Singers (Large Flamenco)
Imágen 4 del carrusel Sonia Delaunay. Cover Design for the Catalogue of the 1916 Stockholm Exhibition: Self-Portrait
Imágen 5 del carrusel Sonia Delaunay, Dress-Poem: The Extractor Fan Turns in the Head’s Heart (text by Tristan Tzara)
Imágen 6 del carrusel Simultaneous Dresses (Three Women, Forms, Colours). Vestidos simultáneos. (Tres mujeres, formas, colores), 1925
Imágen 7 del carrusel Miniatura
Sonia Delaunay, The Bal Bullier

Sonia Delaunay

The Bal Bullier

1913
Oil on canvas.  50.2 x 73 cm
Merzbacher Kunststiftung

Sonia Delaunay. Simultaneous Dress

Sonia Delaunay

Simultaneous Dress

1913
Fabric patchwork
Private collection

Miniatura

Sonia Delaunay

Dubonnet

1914
Watercolour on canvas.  61 x 76 cm
Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid

Sonia Delaunay, Flamenco Singers (Large Flamenco)

Sonia Delaunay

Flamenco Singers (Large Flamenco)

1915-1916
Oil and wax on canvas.  174.5 x 143 cm
Museu Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisboa. Coleção Moderna

Sonia Delaunay. Cover Design for the Catalogue of the 1916 Stockholm Exhibition: Self-Portrait

Sonia Delaunay

Cover Design for the Catalogue of the 1916 Stockholm Exhibition: Self-Portrait

1916
Stencil on paper.  32 x 43 cm
Private collection

Sonia Delaunay, Dress-Poem: The Extractor Fan Turns in the Head’s Heart (text by Tristan Tzara)

Sonia Delaunay

Dress-Poem: The Extractor Fan Turns in the Head’s Heart (text by Tristan Tzara)

1922
Watercolour on paper.  30 x 23.5 cm
Guillermo de Osma

Simultaneous Dresses (Three Women, Forms, Colours). Vestidos simultáneos. (Tres mujeres, formas, colores), 1925

Sonia Delaunay

Simultaneous Dresses (Three Women, Forms, Colours), 1925

Oil on canvas. 146 x 114 cm
© Pracusa S.A.

Miniatura

Sonia Delaunay

Gouache

1938
Watercolour, gouache and pencil on paper, 59 x 44.5 cm
Private collection

Related content

Sonia Delaunay. Arte, diseño y moda
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Sonia Delaunay. Art, design and fashion
With Marta Ruiz del Árbol, curator of the exhibition
Visita virtual de la exposición Sonia Delaunay. Arte, diseño y moda
Virtual tour
Sonia Delaunay. Art, design and fashion
Lorenzo Caprile habla de Sonia Delaunay. Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza
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Lorenzo Caprile talks about Sonia Delaunay
Helena Rohner habla de Sonia Delaunay. Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza
Video
Helena Rohner talks about Sonia Delaunay
Vídeo de la coreografía 3 danzas de Nicolás Rambaud
Video
Dance performance inspired by the works of Sonia Delaunay
"Three Dresses" by Nicolás Rambaud
Sonia Delaunay Prismas eléctricos n.º 41
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Sonia Delaunay. Art, design and fashion

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