Page from portfolio facsimile of watercolour drawings of fashion plates entitled 'Sonia Delaunay; ses Peintures, ses Objets, ses Tissus simultanés, ses Modes', preface André Lhote, Librairie des Arts Decoratifs, Paris, ca. 1925.

Page from facsimile portfolio of watercolour drawings of fashion plates entitled 'Sonia Delaunay; ses Peintures, ses Objets, ses Tissus simultanés, ses Modes'. Features left a woman in orange, grey and brown dress, with patterns of squares in yellow, white, black, brown and grey, and a brown hat; centre, a woman in a long coat black sleeves, collar and front and a panel at the back patterned in blue, red, black and white geometric shapes; right, a woman in blue dress with brown cap and jacket with a brown, black, grey and white geometric pattern composed of lines and triangles.

Transferred from Circulation Department. Renumbered from existing 'C' numbers. The whole portfolio appears to have been accessioned into PDP in two groups, E.7 to 12-1980 and a later group, E.381 to 400-2009.

This portfolio is a facsimile of a collection of the watercolour designs for textiles and costume by Delaunay made between ca. 1915 to the mid-1920s. It includes poems by some of the poets of the avant garde and texts by Albert Gleizes, Robert Delaunay and Apollinaire, which praise Delaunay's work or relates to it in some way, reflecting the close relationship at that time between visual artists and writers. The facsimile represents the way in which, even at the time, artists such as Delaunay were recognised in Paris for their value to a wider public.

E.393-2009