Solar Prism

1914

Sonia Delaunay-Terk

Associated Names
Sonia Delaunay

Artist, Ukraine, 1885 - 1979, active France

This painting is an abstract composition featuring overlapping geometric shapes and curved lines in various colors, including shades of pastel pink, green, tan, cream, and blue, and brighter shades of yellow, red, brown, and black. The shapes intersect and layer on top of each other. Arching bands of color are seen at the top right corner, with more angular, triangle- and rectangle-like shapes in the center and bottom left. The color in some of the shapes has been applied unevenly, while some are solid.
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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    collage with brush and ink, transparent and opaque watercolor, and crayon on board

  • Credit Line

    Gift of The Judith Rothschild Foundation

  • Dimensions

    sheet: 49.8 × 33 cm (19 5/8 × 13 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2007.108.1

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Rose Fried Gallery, New York; Herbert [1891-1976] and Nanette [1897-1979] Rothschild, 1956; Judith Rothschild; The Judith Rothschild Foundation.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1980

  • Sonia Delaunay: A Retrospective, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY, 1980, no. 61.

1996

  • Encounters with Modern Art: Works from the Rothschild Family Collections, National Gallery of Art, Washington; Philadelphia Museum of Art; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 1996-1997, no. 16.

2001

  • A Century of Drawing, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2001-2002, no. 27.

2008

  • Medieval to Modern: Recent Acquisitions of Drawings, Prints, and Illustrated Books, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2008, no. 153.

2024

  • Sonia Delaunay: Living Art, Bard Graduate Center, New York, 2024, cat. 19, fig. 1.9, repro.

Bibliography

1980

  • Buckberrough, Shery A.Sonia Delaunay: A Retrospective. Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY, no. 61 [color repro. pg. 146].

1996

  • Encounters with Modern Art: Works from the Rothschild Family Collections. Exh. cat. National Gallery of Art, Washington; Philadelphia Museum of Art; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 1996-1997: no. 16.

2001

  • A Century of Drawing. Exh. cat. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2001-2002: no. 27.

2024

  • Dorogova, Waleria, and Microulis, Laura, editors. Sonia Delaunay: Living Art. Exh. cat. Bard Graduate Center, New York, 2024: 21, fig 1.9

Inscriptions

"Sonia Delaunay-Terk 1914" lower right margin, red colored pencil. Verso not visible.

Markings

None.

Watermarks

None.

Wikidata ID

Q64632610

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