Dresses and other clothing designed by Sonia Delaunay in the 1920s and ’30s, displayed alongside her fabric swatches and garment sketches, admit viewers into a wardrobe of high modernism.

Fashion. Textiles. Interior design. Printmaking. Mosaics. Painting. Sonia Delaunay did it all. An artist and entrepreneur born in 1885, she defied the expectations of her era to forge a successful ...

With Sonia Delaunay: Living Art, ... In contrast, the sections devoted to her textile and clothing designs are beautifully assembled, and do a wonderful job of demonstrating her process.

NEW YORK — A century ago, Sonia Delaunay and her husband, Robert, were brash young innovators in the avant-garde art world of Paris, exploring the idea that contrasting colors coul… ...

In fact, Delaunay's clothing was integrally related to her painting. Her garments extended experiments in color that she developed with her husband, the painter Robert Delaunay, shortly after ...

Sonia Delaunay was not a designer for the faint of heart. ... This period of Maison Delauney’s innovative and beautifully made clothing experiments would close with the stock market crash of 1929.

Sonia Delaunay's use of color and shape electrified the early-20th-century art world. ... and the clothing for models sitting and standing around the cars, including patchwork fur coats.

Much of the work on view in the Sonia Delaunay exhibition at the Bard Graduate Center Gallery is designed for living: textiles for clothing and furnishing, objects for domestic interiors ...

The more than 200 items on display in “Sonia Delaunay: Living Art” range from collage-like abstract paintings to elegant clothing, from fashionable stage designs to eclectic posters, book ...

During the interwar years, painting was not enough to sustain the Delaunay couple. So Sonia Delaunay began designing clothes and opened a fashion house in their Paris apartment. In Paris, the ...

With more than 200 objects, Sonia Delaunay: Living Art is at once exuberant and weighty. ... the vivid geometric clothing she had invented decades before found a new, hip life.

Sonia was born Sara Elievna Stern in Odessa in Ukraine in 1885, but raised by her aunt and uncle in Russia, in a cultured Jewish milieu. She adopted their surname and a Russian forename: Sonia Terk.