Rating and value of Sonia Delaunay's works, drawings and paintings

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Rating and value of the artist 

A major artist of modern art, Sonia Delaunay is rapidly establishing herself as a sure value on the art market. Sought-after by collectors the world over, Sonia Delaunay's value continues to grow. As a result, a signed Delaunay work can fetch millions of euros at auction, witness her painting Le marché de Minho,adjudged for over €4,000,000 in 2002.

Order of value from a work "after" Sonia Delaunay to an "authentic" work by Sonia Delaunay

The life of Sonia Delaunay

Sonia Delaunay was born into a modest Jewish family in the Ukraine on November 14, 1885. At an early age, she was entrusted to her uncle Henri Trek and moved to Saint Petersburg. From childhood, she nurtured a great passion for European museums, which she visited in the company of her adoptive father.

She studied at the Karlsruhe Academy of Fine Arts before moving to Paris in 1905. Her early works are strongly influenced by Fauvism. 

After a failed first marriage, giving her French nationality and access to privileged Parisian circles, she meets Robert Delaunay, whom she marries in 1910.  

Robert Delaunay was also a painter. Together, the couple founded orphisme, a pictorial movement characterized by the use of bright colors and geometric shapes. Orphism is a kind of fusion between Futurism and Cubism, and was born from the creation of a blanket made by Sonia Delaunay for her son's bedroom.

In 1913, the artist works in collaboration with the poet Blaise Cendrars. They produce an exceptional work, a two-meter-long accordion book with a remarkable layout, for the poem La prose du Transsibérien et de la petite Jehanne de France. This artistic creation was a great success.

The same year, Sonia Delaunay set up her own workshops. She developed her artistic principles in fashion and the applied arts. It was a veritable laboratory of abstraction; for her, the art of her time, in order to renew itself, had to abolish the hierarchy between minor and major arts. There was therefore no difference between her painting and her so-called decorative work.

After the death of her husband and the Second World War, Sonia Delaunay underwent a profound artistic renewal. In 1964, Sonia Delaunay became the first living artist to have a retrospective exhibition at the Louvre. She was also awarded the Légion d'honneur in 1975.

She died in Paris in 1979 at the age of 94, having bequeathed all her works to the Centre Pompidou.

The artist's works and style

Sonia Delaunay leaves behind an abundant and diverse artistic output such as printed fabrics, books, haute couture dresses and paintings.

The fabric patterns created by the artist are today a great source of inspiration for many painters of the younger generation.

Sonia Delaunay's style is characterized by a bold use of color and geometric shapes. Fascinated by the relationship between shapes and colors, she explored how they could interact and create optical effects. In this way, the artist developed a visual language based on abstract compositions, often made up of geometric shapes such as circles, triangles and squares, organized in a dynamic, rhythmic manner. 

Her signature

Not all Sonia Delaunay's works are signed.

Although there are variations, here's a first example of her signature:

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