Sonia Delaunay : the life of an artist

London : Thames and Hudson, 1995. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine cloth copy in a near fine, very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and sharp-cornered. Physical description; 208 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 26 cm. Notes; Bibliography: p. 202. Contents; The colours of childhood; arrival in Paris; Robert Delaunay; early abstract work; First World War; return to Paris; La Maison Delaunay; the International Exposition of 1937; Second World War; years of Sonia's liberation; the golden years of recognition; grand retrospective. Summary; This is the story of a woman who played a significant role in the avant-garde of Paris in the 1920s. A working woman, wife and mother, Sonia Delauney was married to Robert Delauney who gained wide recognition as one of the leading stars of modernism. Sonia herself had to wait until the 1960s before her own abstract art received the acclaim it had long deserved. When she married, she remained in the background, despite producing a wide variety of art - paintings, drawings, clothes, costumes, book bindings, tapestries and carpets, as well as the original commercial fabric designs of the 1920s and 1930s. Based on archival material, including her private journals, this book provides a portrait of Sonia Delauney. Subjects; Delaunay, Sonia (1885-1979) - Criticism and interpretation. Delaunay, Sonia (1885-1979) - Diaries. Art - French - Delaunay, Sonia - critical studies. Artists - France - Biography. Women Artists - Russian Painting. Art styles: c First World War to 1960 ; Fashion design ; Individual artists. Art / History / Modern (late 19th Century to 1945). Biography & Autobiography / General. Design / Fashion. Art / Individual Artists / Monographs. Artists ; Russia ; Biography ; France. Genres; Biography. Autobiography. text.