"Rythme," Sonia Delaunay, 1938.
Delaunay (1886-1979) was a Ukrainian/French artist and designer who was a co-founder of the Orphist movement, an offshoot of Cubism that focused on geometric shapes and bright colors, of which this is a perfect example.
In a link with a recent image I posted, her inspiration for Orphic art was her crafting of a patchwork quilt for her infant son. She just clipped bright cloth into shapes and patched them together as her instinct drew her. Hurrah for quilting!
Her husband died of cancer in 1941, but she went on to be a respected and celebrated artist. She was the first living woman artist to have a retrospective at the Louvre in 1964, and was named an officer of the French Legion of Honor in 1975.
From the Musée National d'Art Moderne, Paris, which I visited in 1980 and I may have seen this with my own eyes, but don't remember.
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