Paques Russes. Russian Easter. by Sonia Delaunay, 1885-1979

Sonia Delaunay, 1885-1979
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Paques Russes. Russian Easter.

Original lithograph in colours. c. 1968. Signed in pencil. Numbered from the series of 25 proof impressions (E.A. - Artist's Proof - XI/XXV) before the regular edition of 75. Printed at the Mourlot Studio c. 1968. Published Paris c.1968.

Excellent impression with brilliant fresh colours. On pale cream wove Arches paper. Excellent condition. Full margins. Sheet: 29 7/8 x 22 3/8ins. Image: 20 ½ x 18 1/4ins. (520x463mm)

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A very fine example of the brilliant colourism and free quasi-geometric brush-drawn forms which characterise Delaunay's handling of lithography in her prints dating from the end of the 1960's and in the early 70's.

Luminosity of colour had been at the centre of Delaunay's ideas from the beginning. Indeed the central thesis of Orphism had been the idea that as colours reflect or transmit differing intensities of light so they place themselves in differing spatial planes. In lithography the colour pigments are translucent but absorb the light from the paper surface to differing degrees, so each colour shape recedes or projects from the visual plane of the paper forming a spatial sculpture.