Robert Delaunay
- Introduction
- Robert Delaunay (12 April 1885 – 25 October 1941) was a French artist who, with his wife Sonia Delaunay and others, co-founded the Orphism art movement, noted for its use of strong colours and geometric shapes. His later works were more abstract. His key influence related to bold use of colour and a clear love of experimentation with both depth and tone.
- Wikidata
- Q33978
- Introduction
- French painter, printmaker, writer. Comment on works: abstract, Landscapes
- Nationality
- French
- Gender
- Male
- Roles
- Artist, Painter
- Names
- Robert Delaunay, Robert II Delaunay, Robert Delaunay II, Delaunay, Robert Victor Félix Delaunay
- Ulan
- 500023463
Exhibitions
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505: Circa 1913
Ongoing
MoMA
Collection gallery
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Inventing Abstraction, 1910–1925
Dec 23, 2012–Apr 15, 2013
MoMA
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Stage Pictures: Drawing for Performance
Mar 11–Sep 7, 2009
MoMA
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Between Representation and Abstraction
Oct 19, 2005–Jan 9, 2006
MoMA
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Painting &
Sculpture II Nov 20, 2004–Aug 5, 2015
MoMA
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Robert Delaunay has
61 exhibitionsonline.
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Robert Delaunay The Tower 1911, dated 1910
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Robert Delaunay Windows Paris 1912
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Robert Delaunay The Three Windows, the Tower and the Wheel 1912
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Robert Delaunay The Tower and the Wheel c. 1912–13
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Robert Delaunay Simultaneous Contrasts: Sun and Moon Paris 1913 (dated on painting 1912)
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Robert Delaunay Football. L'Equipe de Cardiff (1916)
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Robert Delaunay Tour Eiffel 1918
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Robert Delaunay Portrait of Iliazd 1922
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Robert Delaunay Soirée du Coeur à Barbe 1923
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Robert Delaunay La Tour (The Eiffel Tower) 1925
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Robert Delaunay Allo! Paris! 1926
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Robert Delaunay Frontispiece from Allo! Paris! 1926
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Robert Delaunay Plate (facing page 16) from Allo! Paris! 1926
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Robert Delaunay Plate (facing page 20) from Allo! Paris! 1926
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Robert Delaunay Plate (facing page 26) from Allo! Paris! 1926
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Robert Delaunay Plate (facing page 30) from Allo! Paris! 1926
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Robert Delaunay Plate (facing page 36) from Allo! Paris! 1926
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Robert Delaunay Plate (facing page 42) from Allo! Paris! 1926
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Robert Delaunay Plate (facing page 48) from Allo! Paris! 1926
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Robert Delaunay Plate (facing page 56) from Allo! Paris! 1926
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Robert Delaunay Plate (facing page 60) from Allo! Paris! 1926
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Robert Delaunay Plate (facing page 66) from Allo! Paris! 1926
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Robert Delaunay Plate (facing page 70) from Allo! Paris! 1926
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Robert Delaunay Plate (facing page 74) from Allo! Paris! 1926
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Robert Delaunay Plate (facing page 78) from Allo! Paris! 1926
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Robert Delaunay Plate (facing page 84) from Allo! Paris! 1926
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Robert Delaunay Plate (facing page 88) from Allo! Paris! 1926
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Robert Delaunay Plate (facing page 94) from Allo! Paris! 1926
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Robert Delaunay Plate (facing page 98) from Allo! Paris! 1926
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Robert Delaunay Plate (facing page 102) from Allo! Paris! 1926
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Robert Delaunay Plate (facing page 106) from Allo! Paris! 1926
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Robert Delaunay La Relêve du matin (The Morning Relief Troops) 1928
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Robert Delaunay Plate (facing page 7) from La Relêve du matin (The Morning Relief Troops) 1928
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Robert Delaunay ...dans la plaine de Bagatelle où les écoliers du jeudi jouent au ballon... (...on the plain of Bagatelle where Thursday's schoolboys play ball...) (plate, facing page 15) from La Relêve du matin (The Morning Relief Troops) 1928
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Robert Delaunay ...un instant le faible visage apparaît sur le bord de l'ombre... (...for an instant the dim visage appears at the edge of the shadow...) (plate, facing page 50) from La Relêve du matin (The Morning Relief Troops) 1928
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Robert Delaunay ...et le vraie ville s'étirait au-dessus de la ville scolaire, le monstre accroupi, impur et miroitant comme un dragon... (...and the true city stretched out over the scholastic city, the crouching monster, impure and dazzling as a dragon...) (plate, facing page 79) from La Relêve du matin (The Morning Relief Troops) 1928
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Robert Delaunay ...une grande ivresse de soleil, tragique comme certains éclats de rire, comme certains spasmes de fou rire qui secouent une étude du soir, des milliers de choses époisées, des milliers de choses à vif, une espèce de joie... (...a great intoxication of sunlight, tragic like certain bursts of laughter, like certain spasms of insane laughter that shake up a study of the evening, thousands of exhausted things, thousands of lively things, a sort of joy...) (plate, facing page 142) from La Relêve du matin (The Morning Relief Troops) 1928
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Robert Delaunay ...il aperçoit un lac radieux qui est pareil au premier embrasement de l'humanité... (...he perceives a radiant lake like mankind's first embrace...) (plate, facing page 178) from La Relêve du matin (The Morning Relief Troops) 1928
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Robert Delaunay ...les galeries fúyaient en montant comme dans un ciel de Véronèse... (...the balconies receded, ascending, as in a Veronese sky...) (plate, facing page 199) from La Relêve du matin (The Morning Relief Troops) 1928
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Robert Delaunay ...tout se dore dans cette pluié de colombes... (...all is gilded in this shower of doves...) (plate, facing page 218) from La Relêve du matin (The Morning Relief Troops) 1928
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Robert Delaunay ...toute la lumière était en fleurs... (...all the light was in bloom...) (plate, facing page 257) from La Relêve du matin (The Morning Relief Troops) 1928
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Robert Delaunay ...tiens, lá, au coin de pont Álexándre, hier soir, j'ai attendu papa pendant une heure. Sais-tu ce que j'ai fait? Eh bien, avec mon couteau, j'ai gravé le nom de Guynemer dans le parapet. Et puis profound, tu sais!... (...look, there, at the corner of Alexander bridge, I wanted for papa for an hour. Do you know what I did? Well, with my knife I engraved the name Guynemer on the parapet. And very deeply, you know!...) (plate, facing page 274) from La Relêve du matin (The Morning Relief Troops) 1928
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Robert Delaunay Costume designs for the unrealized ballet Triomphe de Paris (The Triumph of Paris) 1928
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Robert Delaunay Study for backdrop for the ballet Triomphe de Paris (The Triumph of Paris) 1928
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Robert Delaunay Costumes for The Dance of Statues for Triumphe de Paris 1928
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Robert Delaunay Rhythm without End 1935
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Robert Delaunay Clefs des pavés 1939
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Various Artists, Jean (Hans) Arp, Giacomo Balla, Robert Delaunay, Sonia Delaunay-Terk, Albert Gleizes, Auguste Herbin, Vasily Kandinsky, Paul Klee, František Kupka, Fernand Léger, Alberto Magnelli, Piet Mondrian, Francis Picabia, Sophie Taeuber-Arp, Theo van Doesburg, Jacques Villon Art of Today, Masters of Abstract Art (Art d'aujourd'hui, maîtres de l'art abstrait), Album I 1953
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