Sonia Delaunay, Simultané playing cards, 1964. Via Cooper HewittThis deck was originally designed in
Sonia Delaunay, Simultané playing cards, 1964. Via Cooper HewittThis deck was originally designed in 1939, a small number of drawings were executed to study the concept. Any plans for rendering it were interrupted by war, and the full deck, subtly different in design, didn’t see the light of day until 1960, when the University of Bielefeld, one of the first to seriously recognize her contributions to modern art, commissioned her to complete the deck. That she did, and these images are the result. In 1979, the deck was to be published to the world by the A & S Playing Card Factory, Altenburg, and Delaunay was called in to supervise its production. She died overseeing its final details. Via guntheranderson -- source link
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