Urgent Museum Notice

Study for “Portugal”

Close up of Study for “Portugal”

Sonia Delaunay, Study for "Portugal", ca. 1937; Gouache on paper, 14 1/4 x 39 in.; National Museum of Women in the Arts, Gift of Wallace and Wilhelmina Holladay. Conservation funds generously provided by the Arkansas State Committee of the National Museum of Women in the Arts

Study for “Portugal”
Sonia Delaunay

Artwork Details

  • Artist

    Sonia Delaunay

  • Title

    Study for “Portugal”

  • Date

    ca. 1937

  • Medium

    Gouache on paper

  • Dimensions

    14 1/4 x 39 in.

  • Donor Credit

    Conservation funds generously provided by the Arkansas State Committee of the National Museum of Women in the Arts

  • On Display

    No

The Artist, Sonia Delaunay

The first living woman artist to be honored with a retrospective exhibition at the Musée du Louvre (1964), Sonia Delaunay blurred the line between “fine” art and “decorative” art.