Plate 36 demonstrates Sonia Delaunay's interest in simultanism, as each shape adjacent to the other affects its color. Delaunay uses neutral tones, as well as orange and off-red colors, complementing them with the blue of some of the squares. The color stencil is both ironic and apt in the fact that it is framed/structured in itself by a rectangular canvas. The off-white color of the background is seen through cracks between the shapes, emphasizing that the color stencil is a layer of shapes on top of shapes. Some shapes presumably overlap one another, as evidenced by the absence of "cracks" between some of them.

SKU: 4290
Creator: Sonia Delaunay
Date: 1930
Original Medium: color stencil (pochoir)
Original Size: 12 11/16 x 9 5/8 in
Location: Baltimore Museum of Art
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