a pendant, silver with enamel, France 1985.
Signed S Delaunay, number 203/350. Pendant ca 5 x 7 cm, inner diameter 11.5 cm, total weight 43 g. For Artcurial. With French hallmarks. Certificate and case included.
Wear commensurate with age and use.
Delaunay, Sonia (1885-1979), Russian-French painter, who in 1911 together with her husband Robert Delaunay and others founded the Orphist movement, known for its vibrant colours and geometric forms. The bright rainbow colours and the balanced composition expressed joy and confidence in both the future and technology. Sonia Delaunay was also a fashion designer, with pure lines and geometric forms as ideals in her elegant fashion sketches. She aimed to adapt the dresses to the movements of the female body and envisioned a future in an industrially produced, democratic fashion. The grey cubism was not Sonia Delaunay's, as she carried throughout her life the legacy of the Fauves and her Russian homeland. The 1920s became the age of imagination, folly, and Jazz, where work and pleasure intertwined. She was the first female artist to have a retrospective exhibition at the Louvre in 1964. She has also been awarded the Legion of Honour.