Sonia Delaunay: Living Art

On View February 23–July 7, 2024

Explore a lifetime of creative expression through the remarkable work of Sonia Delaunay, one of the most influential artists of the twentieth century. The exhibition features fashion, textiles, interiors, books, mosaics, and tapestries created over the course of her decades-long career, including many objects that have never before been on view and showstoppers such as Delaunay’s famed Robe simultanée (Simultaneous Dress).

Explore the World of Sonia Delaunay

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Learn about Sonia Delaunay's costumes for the stage with Broadway designer and BGC student Sydney Maresca; explore her life through poetry with poet Modesto “Flako” Jimenez; and discover her lasting impact on fashion design with Vogue's senior archives editor, Laird Borrelli-Perrson.

Preorder the Catalogue
Sonia Delaunay: Living Art highlights the artist's textiles, fashion, interiors, and book art and provides analyses of previously under-investigated material such as film, mosaics, tapestries, and interior design. Irma Boom's book design embraces Delaunay’s own approach to layout and typography.

Support for Sonia Delaunay: Living Art is generously provided by the David Berg Foundation, Ann Pyne, the Sherrill Foundation, the Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation, Galerie Zlotowski, the Josef and Anni Albers Foundation, the Kroll Family Trust, and other donors to Bard Graduate Center.

Top image: (1) Image adapted from a Sonia Delaunay design, Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris. (2) Coffret à jouets (toy box), 1913. Oil on wood. Centre Pompidou, Musée national d’art moderne, Paris, gift of Sonia Delaunay, 1955, AM 1109 OA. Digital Image © CNAC/MNAM, Dist. RMN-Grand Palais / Art Resource, NY / Georges Meguerditchian. (3) Personal journal and sketchbook, 1967. Collection of Patrick Raynaud. Photograph: Bruce M. White. (4) Rythmes couleurs or Panneau F 1898, 1974, woven by Manufacture de Beauvais, 1975. Wool tapestry. Mobilier national, Paris, BV-270-000. Photograph: Isabelle Bideau.

Middle image: Advertising card for Sonia Delaunay’s studio, early 1930s. Printed card. Centre Pompidou, MNAM-CCI, Bibliothèque Kandinsky, Dist. RMN / Grand Palais / Fonds Robert et Sonia Delaunay.

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            <p class="p3">Support for <em>Sonia Delaunay: Living Art</em> is generously provided by the David Berg Foundation, Ann Pyne, the Sherrill Foundation, the Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation, Galerie Zlotowski, the Josef and Anni Albers Foundation, the Kroll Family Trust, and other donors to Bard Graduate Center.</p>
<p>Top image: (1) Image adapted from a Sonia Delaunay design, Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris. (2) <em>Coffret à jouets</em> (toy box), 1913. Oil on wood. Centre Pompidou, Musée national d’art moderne, Paris, gift of Sonia Delaunay, 1955, AM 1109 OA. Digital Image © CNAC/MNAM, Dist. RMN-Grand Palais / Art Resource, NY / Georges Meguerditchian. (3) Personal journal and sketchbook, 1967. Collection of Patrick Raynaud. Photograph: Bruce M. White. (4) <em>Rythmes couleurs or Panneau F 1898</em>, 1974, woven by Manufacture de Beauvais, 1975. Wool tapestry. Mobilier national, Paris, BV-270-000. Photograph: Isabelle Bideau.</p>
<p>Middle image: Advertising card for Sonia Delaunay’s studio, early 1930s. Printed card. Centre Pompidou, MNAM-CCI, Bibliothèque Kandinsky, Dist. RMN / Grand Palais / Fonds Robert et Sonia Delaunay.</p>
<p>All works by Sonia Delaunay. © Pracusa</p>
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