Sonia Delaunay: Simultaneity

1930–32: Exhibits with the Union des artistes modernes , then with Abstraction Création .

bold abstract pattern is considered the announcement of her future abstract aesthetic.

1913: Sonia befriends the poet Blaise Cendrars, and collaborates on a project illustrating his poem La Prose du Transsibérien et de la petite Jehanne de France, the first in a series of collaborations with him. She participates in the First German Autumn Salon in Berlin, at the Der Sturm gallery, and exhibits paintings as well as books and simultaneous objects. This new Cubism is renamed Orphism by poet and friend Guillaume Apollinaire and a movement is begun. 1914–18: Once France goes to war, the Delaunays travel to Spain, staying in the Iberian Peninsula for the duration. In Portugal, they become close to the local avant-garde, settling in the north of the country, marking a productive period.

1935: Sonia and Robert moves to 16, rue Saint-Simon in Paris.

1937: The Exposition Internationale des Arts et des Techniques dans la Vie Moderne is held at the Palais de l’Air and the Pavillon des Chemins de Fer, with several large frescoes by Robert and Sonia including Voyages lointains and Portugal for which she was awarded the gold medal. 1938: Sonia creates a series of monumental paintings for the 15th Salon des Tuileries , now held in the Mus e d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris.

1939: She organizes the first Réalités Nouvelles exhibition at the Galerie Charpentier.

1920: The Delaunays return to Paris and move to 19, boulevard Malesherbes.

1941: Robert Delaunay dies on October 25 in Montpellier, and Sonia joins the Taeuber-Arps in Grasse.

1923: . Sonia begins designing costumes for Tristan Tzara’s play, Le Cœur à gaz , presenting her textile creations publicly for the first time.

1946: The first major retrospective devoted to Robert Delaunay is held at the Galerie Louis Carr

1925: Takes part in the International Exhibition of Modern Decorative and Industrial Arts , presenting the Simultané boutique in collaboration with the couturier Jacques Heim on the Alexandre III bridge in Paris. 1926: Sonia designs the sets and costumes for Ren Le Somptier’s film Le P’tit Parigot . 1927: Sonia delivers a major lecture at the Sorbonne University: L’influence de la peinture sur les arts vestimentaires.

1947: Sonia takes part in the Tendance de l’art abstrait exhibition at Galerie Denise Ren with Jean Arp, Hans Hartung, František Kupka and Piet Mondrian. 1953–54: Andr Bloc and F lix del Marle found the Groupe Espace , whose members include Sonia Delaunay, Victor Vasarely and Fernand L ger. She creates several mosaics which are exhibited in Biot.