At 21, she made her way to Paris in search of freedom, vitality and youth – which she found. She altered her first name, too, and as Sonia Terk set off to study painting in Germany. They were highly cultivated, well-to-do Jews, and Sonia adopted their surname. Together, they became quite the avant-garde power couple.īorn Sarah Stern in Ukraine, Sonia had been sent at a young age to live with her uncle and aunt in St Petersburg. Uhde remained a lifelong friend, but in the artist Delaunay, a pioneer of abstraction, she found a soulmate. Being married gave her an excuse to stay in Paris. He was homosexual she was under social pressure from her family in Russia. She had already changed her country twice, her name twice, and been married once, a brief marriage of convenience to Wilhelm Uhde, art critic and collector. W hen Sonia Terk married Robert Delaunay in 1910, she was 25.
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