Colored Rhythm

Inscription: Signed and dated (lower right, black ink): Sonia Delaunay / 1959

the artist, Paris (1959–at least 1961); private collection, Oslo (in 1971); William Benenson, New York (until 1991; his gift to MMA)

Charlottesville. Bayly Art Museum, University of Virginia. "Movement and Meaning: Images of Dance in Modernist Art," September 20–December 8, 1996, unnumbered cat. (p. 2).

New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Highlights from the Modern Design Collection: 1900–Present, Part II," May 23, 2011–July 1, 2012, no catalogue.

Jacques Damase et al. Sonia Delaunay: Rythmes et couleurs. Paris, 1971, ill. p. 310, call it "Rythmes colorés" and locate it in a private collection, Oslo.

Arthur A. Cohen. Sonia Delaunay. New York, 1975, fig. 188 (installation photo, the artist's home, Paris, 1961).

Stanley Baron with Jacques Damase. Sonia Delaunay: The Life of an Artist. London, 1995, p. 162, ill. p. 164.

Lyn Bolen Rushton. Movement and Meaning: Images of Dance in Modernist Art. Exh. cat., Bayly Art Museum, University of Virginia. Charlottesville, 1996, pp. 15, 18, ill. p. 2.

Andrew Bolton. Karl Lagerfeld: A Line of Beauty. Exh. cat., The Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York, 2023, pp. X, 35, fig. 46 (color), states that Delaunay works such as this served as inspiration for Lagerfeld's "Lahore" ensemble from Chloé's summer 1971 collection (see pl. 230).

Lydia Yee in Alice Baber: Color Hunger. Exh. cat., Luxembourg + Co. New York, 2023, p. 17, fig. 9 (color), calls it "Coloured Rhythm".