Sonia Delaunay - Une Vie en Couleur

A beautiful and poetic book inspired by Sonia Delaunay's world. An artist takes her young son on a fanciful journey to help him understand the many ways of experiencing colour. In her multicoloured car they enter a landscape made of the hues and shapes of her artworks. Charles's mother is Sonia Delaunay, who in the early 1910s, together with her husband, Robert, proposed the bold idea that instead of depicting people, places, and things as they appeared in real life, they would reflect the modern world by capturing its colours, shapes, sounds, and movements. This book, which incorporates four vivid, full-colour plates of Sonia's work from the collections of The Museum of Modern Art, New York, and the Centre Pompidou, Paris, brings her most fundamental ideas about art and life into focus for young readers.