Delaunay arrived in Paris in 1905, in time to witness the Fauves’ radical experiments with color and the birth of Cubism. Ten years later, at the outbreak of World War I, she and her husband, the artist Robert Delaunay, left France and traveled extensively in Spain and Portugal where, as she recalled, “light caused every color to vibrate, without the gray haze that envelops them in France.” In Valença do Minho, she made a series of paintings around the theme of the market in which saturated colors rendered in oil and wax enliven the produce and wares for sale.

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By 1955, Theodore R. Racoosin, New York.
1955, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, acquired as gift from Theodore R. Racoosin.

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Medium Oil and wax on canvas
Dimensions 35 5/8 x 35 5/8" (90.5 x 90.5 cm)
Credit Gift of Theodore R. Racoosin
Object number 191.1955
Department Painting & Sculpture

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