SONIA DELAUNAY./ SIMULTANE. playing cards. / 1964 - FIRST EDITION / FIRMADA A MANO.

SIMULTANE' -  Design of SONIA DELAUNAY . 1964 - FIRST EDITION (SCARCE). Firmada a mano por la artista.
***(BIELEFELDER SPIELKARTEN G.M.B.H. on 7 Hearts - makers of First Edition).

The world renowned artist, printmaker and designer.
Her work is widely collected by galleries, museums and private collectors worldwide.

In 1964, she became the first living woman to be exhibited at the LOUVRE Museum, during her lifetime.
Her first solo retrospective at TATE MODERN in London has recently ended.
Her art was one of the first expressions of abstract painting, and she influenced Paul Klee and preceded Mondrian and Matisse.

Simultaneity, or in french, Simultané.
It would become for her much more than contrasting colors. Simultané was unifying the disparate and deconstructing the singular, seeing something as both many things and one thing, simultaneously. In color and in form, Simultané was very much her life's work.

Her 'Simultané' playing cards were first conceived during 1939, and a small number of drawings were executed to study the concept. Any plans for rendering it, if they existed at all, 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 in 1964. *THIS IS THE FIRST DECK

The 2nd edition was re-issued in 1980 on the occasion of the first retrospective exhibition of her works in the United States. It has 1980 on the Joker.


2 x 52 cards + ALL SIX JOKERS (undated which means it is the first edition deck)
rev: Harlequin pattern in black, red, blue & white
MINT condition
Size: 91 mm x 60 mm.