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	The good news for Sonia fans is that many of the books that feature Robert also feature Sonia. . While she certainly has a number of excellent paintings, she is more known for her avant-garde fashion design. ), there is virtually nothing of substance out there. If you know of a Sonia Delaunay website, please let me know and I will consider it as a link.

In 1909 she married the critic Wilhelm Uhde (a friend off Picasso's), but divorced him to marry in the next year, the painter Robert Delaunay. With him she founded the Orphism movement and they did many of the set and costume designs for Diaghilev's Ballet Russe. Parallel to her career as an abstract artist she also had an important influence on textile design internationally. She was awarded many prizes and her work is in most important public galleries. .

. Now, in an exhibition at the Portland Museum of Art, the early impact of Cubism on France's decorative arts is explored. Among the highlights are colorful dress-design sketches by Sonia Delaunay, whose clients included Hollywood actress Gloria Swanson, and an aluminum-and-plastic desk lamp designed by Jacques Le Chevallier that looks modern even today. The exhibit, which will not travel, runs through October 20. .

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