Portuguese Market

Sonia Delaunay · 1915

You're looking at Portuguese Market, painted by Sonia Delaunay in nineteen fifteen in oil and wax. Delaunay applied the same theory of simultaneous colour across painting, textiles, book design and clothing, refusing the line between fine and applied art that most of her contemporaries took for granted.

Medium Oil and wax on canvas · Dimensions 35 5/8 x 35 5/8" (90.5 x 90.5 cm) · Credit Gift of Theodore R. Racoosin

Hanging beside it in Gallery 503: Road near L'Estaque, Jar, Bottle and Glass

Works like this one elsewhere in the museum: The Passage from Virgin to Bride, Abstract Portrait of Marcel Duchamp, Bridge, Exit the Ballets Russes, The Kitchen, Leaves and Navels