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Artist or Maker: Sonia Delaunay (1885-1979)

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Description: Danseuse Tango
signed, dated, numbered and inscribed 'S. Delaunay-Terk, 25 IV 23, 71' (lower left)
gouache, watercolour, brush and black ink and pencil on paper
15 3/8 x 10 1/2 in. (38.9 x 26.7 cm.)
Executed on 25 April 1923

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Provenance: Jacques Damase, Paris, by whom acquired from the artist; his sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 21 June 1994, lot 14.
Leonard Hutton Galleries, New York.

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Exhibited: Lisbon, Fondation Calouste Gulbekian, Sonia and Robert Delaunay in Portugal and their friends Eduardo Viana, Amadeu Sousa Cardoso, José Pacheco and José de Almada-Negreiros, 1972.
Paris, Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Sonia Delaunay. Tristan Tzara, April - June 1977.
Paris, Art Curial, Sonia Delaunay, 1981.
Milan, Galleria Marconi, Atelier simultané di Sonia Delaunay 1923-1954, October 1984, no. 132 (illustrated p. 73).
Paris, Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Robert et Sonia Delaunay, May - September 1985, no. 230 (illustrated p. 231).
Zurich, Musée Bellerive, Sonia Delaunay, 1885-1979, May - August 1987, no. 86.
New York, Leonard Hutton Galleries, New York, Sonia Delaunay, Works of the Teens and Twenties, April - May 1995, no. 31 (illustrated p. 53).
Emden, Kunsthalle, Tanz in der Moderne, von Matisse bis Schlemmer, October 1996 - January 1997, no. 22 (illustrated p. 179); this exhibition later travelled to Munich, Haus der Kunst, February - April 1997.
Roslyn, New York, Nassau County Museum of Art, Dance, Dance, Dance, June - September 2000, p. 18 (illustrated).
Barcelona, Museu Picasso, Robert y Sonia Delaunay, October 2000 - January 2001, no. 105 (illustrated p. 187).

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Published: J. Damase & E. Mustelier, Sonia Delaunay, Paris, 1971, p. 49 (illustrated).
J. Damase, Sonia Delaunay, Rhythms and Colours, Greenwich, 1972, p. 161 (illustrated).
A. Malochet, Atelier simultané de Sonia Delaunay 1923-1934, Milan, 1984, no. 132 (illustrated p. 73).
D. Vreeland, Sonia Delaunay, Art into Fashion, New York, 1986, p. 44 (illustrated).
J. Damase (ed.), Sonia Delaunay, Mode et tissus imprimés, Paris, 1991 (illustrated p. 101 and on the cover).
S. Baron & J. Damase, Sonia Delaunay. The Life of an Artist, London, 1995, no. 49 (illustrated p. 90; titled Danseuse électrique).
P. Kollros, 'Die Geometrie tanzt Tango', in Heidenheimer Zeitung, Heidenheim, 8 February 1997.

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Notes: This work is listed under no. 674 in the artist's inventory.

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