Tissue de Robe et Fond Orphiste. Rayonist Dress Fabric and Background. by Sonia Delaunay, 1885-1979

Sonia Delaunay, 1885-1979
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Tissue de Robe et Fond Orphiste. Rayonist Dress Fabric and Background.

Original lithograph in colours, c.1970. Signed in pencil. Inscribed in pencil as 'E.A.' - artist's proof. Proof apart from the edition of 100. Drawn and editioned in Paris c. 1970.

Excellent impression with brilliant fresh colours. On pale cream japan paper. Excellent condition. Full margins. Sheet: 25 1/2 x 19 l/2ins. Image: 18 1/4 x 12 l/2ins. (465x318mm).

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Sonia Delaunay first developed the concept of Orphisme - the use of patterns of brilliant colour to create abstract visual constructions - together with her husband Robert Delaunay in the period 1910-20. In the years after the First War they continued to advance their ideas of how colour could be used in an abstract non-figurative way to describe and 'model' space through the juxtaposition of different colour tones, some light reflective some light absorbing.

It was also at the end of the 1920's that Sonia Delaunay began to apply these same types of colour patterns to designs for fabric and interiors. By the 1930's her work in this field had become almost as famous as her painting. This lithograph recalls this aspect of her work within a pictorial setting. It is one of the few prints in her oeuvre to link the two sides of her inspiration.