Pour René Crevel. by Sonia Delaunay, 1885-1979

Sonia Delaunay, 1885-1979
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Pour René Crevel.

Original etching with aquatint and mixed techniques printed in colours. 1974/75. Signed in pencil. Numbered (33) in pencil from the edition of 100. Total edition of 145 plus 10 artist's proofs. Edition printed at the Atelier Visat, Paris 1974/75. Issued in the series: 'Pour René Crevel-La Mysticité' by Editions Georges Visat, 1976.

Excellent very strong fresh impression with no fading of the colours. On pale cream wove Arches paper. Excellent condition. Full small margins as issued. Sheet: 15 x 11 1/8ins. Plate: 12 1/8 x 9 1/8ins (310x230mm).

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Although this composition dates from the late period of Sonia Delaunay's work it still retains strong links with the early ideas of abstract colour pattern which she had developed with her husband Robert Delaunay (see no 7 overleaf) in the 1920's. During the late 1910's she and her husband were exploring how combinations of rhythmic shape and optically-linked colours could be used to create expressions of form and space. By the 1920's this 'Simultanéisme', as they called it, was fully developed.

Sonia Delaunay continued to develop such concepts throughout her life. In the period from the beginning of the 1960's she became very interested in using printmaking media. In etching she found that the intaglio process allowed her to introduce elements of texture to complement colour and shape. This is very well displayed in this composition which she drew in honour of the Surrealist poet René Crevel whom she had known since the 1930's.