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Group of Women (Groupe de Femmes) (sketch for "L'Hommage au Donateur")

1916

Russian, active in France 1885 - 1979

Sonia Delaunay developed an exuberant type of abstract painting, breaking up forms rooted in nature into riots of fractal color. This work is a study for a mural that was to be a chapel façade in Portugal but was never painted. The artist was inspired by the color of the landscape, the native textiles, and the dress of its inhabitants as well as the clarity of its light.

Gouache on paper mounted on board

17 1/4 x 14 in. (43.8 x 35.6 cm)

Eugene Fuller Memorial Collection

72.14

Provenance: Collection of Zoe Dusanne (1884-1972), Seattle, Washington; bequeathed to her daughter, Theodosia Young (1909-1999); Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, Washington, 1972

Not currently on view

Resources

Exhibition HistorySan Francisco, California, San Francisco Museum of Art, Modern Masters in West Coast Collections, Oct. 18 - Nov. 27, 1960.

Seattle, Washington, Zoe Dusanne Gallery, 1971.

Seattle, Washington, Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Women in Art: Survivors '72, 1972.

Vancouver, British Columbia, Vancouver Art Gallery, The Seattle Art Museum Lends, Mar. 13 - Apr. 11, 1976. No cat. no.

Seattle, Washington, Seattle Art Museum, Modern Art Pavilion, Tribute to Zoe Dusanne, Mar. 24 - May 8, 1977.

Walla Walla, Washington, Olin Gallery, Whitman College, School of Paris, the 20th Century, Dec. 3, 1978 - Jan. 28, 1979.

Seattle, Washington, Seattle Art Museum, International Abstraction: Making Painting Real, May 2, 2003 - Feb. 29, 2004.

Published References"Recent Accessions of American and Canadian Museums." The Art Quarterly vol. 35, no. 3 (Autumn 1972): p. 325, reproduced p. 333.

"États-Unis Acquisitions des Musées." Gazette des Beaux-Arts, no. 1249 (Feb. 1973): p. 167, no. 586.

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