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Sonia Delaunay: Everything Is Feeling

Sonia Delaunay, Untitled, 1926.

5 Chome-8-1 Toranomon, Minato City, Tokyo 105-0001, Japan

Sonia Delaunay trained as a painter but she brought her artistic vision to many mediums, including textile design. She and her husband, the artist Robert Delaunay, saw color as a philosophy of chromatic relationships, a rhythm, a form of kinetics. Born in Ukraine’s Gradizhsk in 1885, Sonia was sent to live with her uncle in St. Petersburg. Later she moved to Paris and by 1908, she was preparing for her first solo exhibition; she married Robert two years later. The couple, who thrived at the center of artistic life in Paris, was avant-garde and influential. This exhibition, organized in collaboration with Gió Marconi Gallery, features works on paper by Sonia Delaunay, dating from the 1920s through the 1940s. —Henry McGrath