Sonia Delaunay: Simultaneity

1 Arthur A. Cohen, ed., The New Art of Color: The Writings of Robert and Sonia Delaunay. Viking Press, New York, 1978, p. 219. 2 See Waleria Dorogova and Laura Microulis, “Introduction” in Sonia Delaunay: Living Art, exhibition catalogue, Bard Graduate Center, New York, p. 22. 3 Oral history interview with Edith Gregor Halpert, May 9, 1962, by Harlan Phillips, Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution. https://www.aaa.si.edu/collections/interviews/ oral-history-interview-edith-gregor-halpert-13220 4 The other couples included Willem and Elaine de Kooning, Jackson Pollock and Lee Krasner, Hans Arp and Sophie Taeuber-Arp, Ben Nicholson and Barbara Hepsworth, and Max Ernst and Dorothea Tanning. 5 October 3, 1955, Rose Fried Gallery Records, Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution. https://www.aaa.si.edu/collections/rose-fried-gallery-records-5539/series-2/box 2-folder-45 6 Letter from Rose Fried to Sonia Delaunay, 27 September 1956, Bibliothèque Kandinsky, Centre Georges Pompidou, DEL 121. 7 Letter from Rose Fried to Sonia Delaunay, 19 April 1956, Bibliothèque Kandinsky, DEL 121. 8 Letter from Sonia Delaunay to Rose Fried, 30 January 1958, Rose Fried Gallery Records, Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution. https://www.aaa.si.edu /collections/ rose-fried-gallery-records-5539/series-2/box-2-folder-45 9 Arthur A. Cohen, Sonia Delaunay , New York, Harry N. Abrams, 1975, p. 82. 10 Hilton Kramer, “Sonia Delaunay—A Pioneer Modernist,” The New York Times , 17 February 1980, p. 33. 11 John Russell, “The Awesome Gifts of Sonia Delaunay,” The New York Times, 20 November 1980, p. C10.

Isabelle Dervaux is an art historian and curator. From 2005 to 2023 she was the Acquavella Curator and Department Head of Modern and Contemporary Drawings at the Morgan Library & Museum, New York. Previously she held curatorial positions at the National Gallery of Art, Washington DC, and the National Academy Museum, New York. She holds a Ph.D. in art history from the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, and a Master’s degree from the University of Paris-Sorbonne. She has curated numerous exhibitions on twentieth-century European and American art, including Surrealism USA (2005); Roy Lichtenstein: The Black-and-White Drawings (2010); Dan Flavin: Drawing (2012); Subliming Vessel: The Drawings of Matthew Barney (2013); Dubuffet Drawings (2016); Georg Baselitz: Six Decades of Drawings (2022); Entrance to the Mind: Drawings by George Condo (2023) and Ferdinand Hodler: Drawings (2023). She has published extensively on modern and contemporary art, notably essays on Surrealism, Josef Albers, Arshile Gorky, Philip Guston, Helen Frankenthaler, Cy Twombly, and Tom Wesselmann.