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After creating a cover for the bed of their son Charles, in the Russian tradition but with her so personal touch, Sonia starts to work on textiles, in the illustration of artists’ books and the car decoration - Bugatti Type 35, Citroen B12, Matra 530 - matching with her Haute Couture gowns. She becomes the appointed designer of the international aristocracy.
Fascinated by the communion of the arts, she dresses the dancers of the Diaghilev and Felix Blaska performances.
In 1923 she opened her own fashion boutique, starts her fashion shows and collaborates with fashion designer Jacques Heim. Her talent is universally recognized and applauded from Paris to New York. In 1930, Sonia closes her shop following the American economic crisis and devoted herself to her painting. After the death of Robert in 1941, she will fight to defend with passion the work of her husband until he gets the recognition he deserves.
In 1955, Sonia finally gets what she wants; Robert is recognized as one of the foremost painters of his time. She herself will have her art praised to the skies with great exhibitions in major museums worldwide. Sonia Delaunay was the first woman to have had in her lifetime, a retrospective at the Louvre.
Even if the artist joined her eternal spouse on the 5th of December 1979 in Paris, in this city of lights that they have illuminated with their creative genius, their work still shines in all its poetic modernity and remains a vivid source of inspiration in its colorful perpetual motion.
Sonia Delaunay
Prismes électriques, 1913-1914,
© Pracusa 2013057
© Davis Museum at Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA, Gift of Mr. Theodore Racoosin
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