Le Coeur à gaz (The Gas-Operated Heart)

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Le Coeur à gaz (The Gas-Operated Heart)

Artist Sonia Delaunay Terk (French, born Ukraine, 1885-1979)

Publisher Jacques Damase

Author Tristan Tzara (French (born Romania), 1896-1963)

Place of OriginParis

Date1977 (original designs 1923)

DimensionsOverall: 17 5/8 x 9 1/4 in. (450 x 235 mm)

MediumBook with color lithographs, plus an extra suite of lithographs; letterpress text

ClassificationBooks

Credit LinePurchased with funds given by the Toledo Modern Art Group

Object number

2003.3I

Not on View

DescriptionOne artist's book, containing the letterpress script and lithographs of the macquettes created for the 1923 performance of Tristan Tzara's play Le Coeur à gaz, along with an additional suite of lithographs.

Published Referencescf.: Stanley Baron, Sonia Delaunay: The Life of an Artist (London: Thames and Hudson, 1995). cf.: La Rencontre Donia Delaunay, Tristan Tzara (Paris: Musée d'art moderne de la ville de Paris, 1977). cf.: Robert Delaunay, Sonia Delaunay (Paris: Musée d'art modern de la ville de Paris, 1985). cf.: Jacques Damase, Sonia Delaunay: Fashion and Fabrics (New York: Thames and Hudson, 1991). cf.: A. Cohen, editor, The New Art of Color: The Writings of Robert and Sonia Delaunay (New York: Viking, 1978).Exhibition HistoryBeing Modern: Fashion, Art & Identity, Sept. 2 - Nov. 27 2005.

Toledo Museum of Art, In Motion: Dance and Performance in Art, September 18, 2015- January 3, 2016.