Sonia was born Sara Elievna Stern in Odessa in Ukraine in 1885, but raised by her aunt and uncle in Russia, in a cultured Jewish milieu. She adopted their surname and a Russian forename: Sonia Terk.

Sonia Delaunay was not a designer for the faint of heart. Her name was on programs when the music was by Stravinsky, the films by Man Ray and the plays by Tristan Tzara. André Breton once stepped ...

Culture This Jewish artist got her start before WWI. A century later, she’s still in the avant garde In the early 20th century, Odessa-born artist Sonia Delaunay pioneered abstract paintings ...

Sonia Delaunay began her career as a designer and artist in the most serendipitous of ways. When her son was born in 1911 she decided to make him a patchwork quilt for his crib.

In museums and textbooks, Sonia tends to stick with her husband, the French painter Robert Delaunay, whom she married in 1910. Around that time Sonia, originally trained as a painter in the ...

NEW YORK — A century ago, Sonia Delaunay and her husband, Robert, were brash young innovators in the avant-garde art world of Paris, exploring the idea that contrasting colors coul… ...

An Exhibition of Sonia Delaunay’s Work Holds a Mirror to a Life Lived in Art The show, now on view at the Bard Graduate Center Gallery, is aptly titled “Living Art.” By Sonya Abrego • 05 ...

More than 400 pieces by the Ukraine-born abstract pioneer Sonia Delaunay are now on show at the Paris Museum of Modern Art in Sonia Delaunay: The Colours of Abstraction, the largest such exhibit ...

Uhde, who mounted her first solo show in 1908, also introduced her to Picasso, Braque, Vlaminck — and to Robert Delaunay. Sonia fell instantly for Robert, her great love and kindred spirit.