Sarah Stern, known to history as Sonia Delaunay, spent her early childhood in Ukraine. At the age of five she was taken in by her maternal uncle Henri Terk, adopted the name Sonia Terk, and went to live in St. Petersburg. She began studying art in Karlsruhe, Germany, in 1903 and moved in 1905 to Paris, where she studied Post-Impressionism and French Fauvism without breaking with the memory of the brightly-coloured icons of the Slavic tradition. She then made a series of expressionist portraits with strong colour ranges (Philomène, 1907). After a brief marriage, for administrative convenience, to the German gallerist Wilhelm Uhde, she divorced and married Robert Delaunay in 1910...
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