Lot #916: SONIA DELAUNAY - Danseuse avec un chapeau - Gouache, watercolor, and crayon drawing on paper

 

Artist: Sonia Delaunay (Ukrainian/French, 1885 - 1979).
Title: "Danseuse avec un chapeau".
Medium: Gouache, watercolor, and crayon drawing on paper.
Date: Composed 1917.
Dimensions: Overall size: 11 1/8 x 9 1/8 in. (283 x 232 mm).
Lot Note(s): Signed and dated in pencil, lower right recto; signed in pencil, upper center verso; collector's ink stamp (red letter 'B') lower right recto; collector ink stamps and annotations in pencil, verso. Painted on cream wove paper. Very good to fine condition; would be fine save for a ragged left edge when the work was removed from a sketchbook and a barely visible soft vertical fold, left edge. Provenance: If you have a genuine interest in bidding on this work kindly send an email to: [email protected] for provenance information and additional image(s). Comment(s): A very similar work to our example is “Danseuse,” gouache on paper, 10 1/4" x 7 1/8,” c.1915, which sold for $22,022 (£12,100) including premium at Sotheby’s London, December 2, 1987, lot #474. Image copyright © The Estate of Sonia Delaunay. [30235-2-16000]