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Exhibitions

Better than Robert? Sonia Delaunay at Tate Modern reviewed

The Russian-born French artist emerges from her husband's shadows - and triumphs

18 April 2015

9:00 AM

18 April 2015

9:00 AM

The EY Exhibition: Sonia Delaunay

Tate Modern, until 9 August

In 1978, shortly before she died, the artist Sonia Delaunay was asked in an interview whether she considered herself a feminist. ‘No! I despise the word!’ she replied. ‘I never thought of myself as a woman in any conscious way. I’m an artist.’

It is pretty obvious, though, that the Sonia Delaunay retrospective at Tate Modern (which has come from the Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris) has been organised if not explicitly by feminists, then at least with feminism in mind.

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