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Description: Robert Delaunay
(French, 1885-1941)
Rythme, 1938
tapestry
signed (lower left)
92 x 66 inches.

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Condition: fading visible throughout, light wear and possible surface dirt visible in white sections, no visible tears or stains, appears to be clean throughout - please see images.
Images available upon request.

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Notes: Property from the Estate of Hortense G. Singer, Chicago, Illinois

This lot is accompanied by a letter from Sonia Delaunay, the artist''s wife.

Provenance:
Galerie Bing, Paris, France
Sonia Delauney
Private Collection
Galerie Beyeler, Basel, Switzerland, 1977
Acquired from the above by the present owner.

Exhibited:
Paris, Galerie Denise Renè, Tendances de l''art abstrait 1948
Ottowa, Toronto, Montreal, Regina, and Quebec, Galerie Nationale du Canada, Robert et Sonia Delaunay, 1965
Paris, Musèe Rodin, Sculptures de peintures, 1973
Bern, Kunstmuseum, Künstlerpaare-Künstlerfreunde., Dialogues d''artistes-résonances, Sonia & Robert Delaunay, 1991-1992

Literature:
Guy Habasque, Catalogue de l''oeuvre de Robert Delaunay , in Robert Delaunay, Du Cubisme a l''Art Abstrait, Paris, 1957, no. 295.
Bernard Dorival Robert Delaunay, 1885-1941, Brüssel, 1975
Michael Hoog, R. Delaunay, ganzseitige Farbabb., Müchen, 1983
Hajo Düchting, Robert und Sonia Delaunay , Triumph der Farbe,
Köln, 1993.