ROBERT DELAUNAY (1885-1941)

Details

ROBERT DELAUNAY (1885-1941)

Etude pour le portrait de Madame Heim

oil on panel 18 x 14 7/8in. (46 x 37.7cm.)
Painted circa 1926

Provenance

Sonia Delaunay, Paris
Galerie Artcurial, Paris
Galerie Gmurzynska, Cologne (acquired by the present owner)

Literature

G. Habasque, Robert Delaunay du cubisme à l'art abstrait,
Paris, 1957, p. 290, no. 248

Exhibited

Cologne, Galerie Gmurzynska, Robert Delaunay, May-Aug., 1983
(illustrated)
Cologne, Galerie Gmurzynska, Masters of the XX Century, 1987 (illustrated)

Lot Essay

This painting is a study for a portrait of the wife of Jacques Heim, the director of a fashion boutique for whom Sonia Delaunay (the artist's wife) produced fabric designs. In this study and later versions Mme Heim is portrayed wearing a shawl which Sonia created.