Auction 509 Part 2 Day Sale
Nov 30, 2023
Hitzelerstr. 2, 50968 Köln, Germany
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LOT 176:

Stephan Balkenhol
Sonia Delaunay-Terk: Marché au Minho, Portugal

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Sold for: €90,000
Price including buyer’s premium: 118,800
Start price:
32,000
Estimate :
€40,000 - €60,000
Buyer's Premium: 32%
VAT: 19% On commission only
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Auction took place on Nov 30, 2023 at VAN HAM Kunstauktionen GmbH Co. KG
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Sonia Delaunay-Terk: Marché au Minho, Portugal
DELAUNAY-TERK, SONIA
1885 Odessa - 1979 Paris

Title: Marché au Minho, Portugal.
Date: 1917.
Technique: Watercolour on watercolour paper.
Measurement: 36 x 25.5cm.
Notation: Signed and dated lower right: S Delaunay-Terk 1917.
Frame/Pedestal: Framed.

Provenance:
- Marguerite Arp Hagenbach, Basel (gift to her sister)
- Private collection Switzerland
- Galerie Kornfeld, Bern, 2008, lot 25
- Private collection Germany

Exhibitions:
- Stiftung Hans Arp und Sophie Taeuber-Arp, Bahnhof Rolandseck/ Kunsthaus Zurich/ Galerie K. Walter, Kindberg, 1986

Literature:
- Exhib. cat. Hans Arp - Zum 100. Geburtstag, Stiftung Hans Arp und Sophie Taeuber-Arp, Bahnhof Rolandseck/Kunsthaus Zurich/Galerie K. Walter, Kindberg, 1986, ill.

- Colour-intensive watercolour from the important series of works "Marché au Minho" created during her stay in Portugal
- Figurative and abstract elements unite with intense colours and produce Delaunay's characteristic pictorial rhythm
- In 1964, Sonia Delaunay was the first woman to receive a retrospective at the Louvre in Paris

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