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Sonia Delaunay

1885 - 1979

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Sonia Delaunay (French: [sɔnja dəlonɛ]; 14 November 1885 – 5 December 1979) was a French artist born to Jewish parents, who spent most of her working life in Paris. She was born in the Russian Empire, now Ukraine, and was formally trained in Russia and Germany, before moving to France and expanding her practice to include textile, fashion, and set design. She was part of the School of Paris and co-founded the Orphism art movement, noted for its use of strong colours and geometric shapes, with her husband Robert Delaunay and others. She was the first living female artist to have a retrospective exhibition at the Louvre in 1964, and in 1975 was named an officer of the French Legion of Honor. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Sonia Delaunay is the 207th most popular painter (down from 190th in 2019), the 74th most popular biography from Ukraine and the 3rd most popular Ukrainian Painter.

Sonia Delaunay is most famous for her use of color and geometric shapes in her paintings.

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Among PAINTERS

Among painters, Sonia Delaunay ranks 207 out of 2,023. Before her are Johannes Itten, Han van Meegeren, Lucas Cranach the Younger, Eugène Boudin, Thomas Gainsborough, and Hendrik Goltzius. After her are Francis Picabia, Rosso Fiorentino, Charles-François Daubigny, Francesco Guardi, Joaquín Sorolla, and Georgia O'Keeffe.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1885, Sonia Delaunay ranks 29. Before her are Heinrich Hoffmann, Mikhail Frunze, Heinrich Brüning, Vladimir Tatlin, Chester W. Nimitz, and Kato Svanidze. After her are Yakov Sverdlov, George Minot, Sabina Spielrein, Tomoyuki Yamashita, Karl Radek, and Sinclair Lewis. Among people deceased in 1979, Sonia Delaunay ranks 23. Before her are Shin'ichirō Tomonaga, Hafizullah Amin, Ludvík Svoboda, Robert Burns Woodward, Mustafa Barzani, and Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin. After her are Hanna Reitsch, Agostinho Neto, Sid Vicious, Feodor Lynen, Nelson Rockefeller, and Bertil Ohlin.

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In Ukraine

Among people born in Ukraine, Sonia Delaunay ranks 74 out of 1,365. Before her are Vasily Grossman (1905), Vladimir Tatlin (1885), Yuri Dolgorukiy (1095), Ignacy Jan Paderewski (1860), Anatoliy Solovianenko (1932), and Rodion Malinovsky (1898). After her are Nikolai Podgorny (1903), Mila Kunis (1983), Baal Shem Tov (1700), Sergey Bubka (1963), Edward Rydz-Śmigły (1886), and Larisa Latynina (1934).

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Among PAINTERS In Ukraine

Among painters born in Ukraine, Sonia Delaunay ranks 3. Before her are Kazimir Malevich (1879), and Ilya Repin (1844). After her are Marie Bashkirtseff (1858), Arkhip Kuindzhi (1842), Henryk Siemiradzki (1843), Maria Prymachenko (1908), Zinaida Serebriakova (1884), Leonid Pasternak (1862), Maurycy Gottlieb (1856), Cassandre (1901), and Anna Bilińska (1854).

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