Robert Delaunay

(1885–1941) fransk målare och skulptör

Robert Delaunay (France, 1885–1941) is listed in the catalogue as a painter and a designer. By year of birth, Robert Delaunay belongs to the chapter ‘The interwar years’ in this site’s history of art.

Robert Delaunay was born in Paris and died in Montpellier. Robert Delaunay trained at Collège François-de-Laval. Robert Delaunay worked in Paris, Pont-Aven, and Spain. Wikidata associates Robert Delaunay with Orphism, simultanism, and Neo-impressionism. The students included Lyonel Feininger and Léon-Laurent Galand.

The best-known works include ‘Simultaneous Disc’, ‘Eiffel Tower with Trees’, and ‘Hommage to Blériot’. The works belong mainly to the genres abstract art and still life. The catalogue has 187 works by Robert Delaunay with free images. The dated works span the years 1793–1941. Works by Robert Delaunay are held by several collections, among them Musée National d'Art Moderne, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Musée d'Art moderne de Paris, and Museum of Modern Art. Wikidata links 10 works to movements covered in the chapter ‘The avant-garde’.

Contemporary artists in the same chapter include Georges Valmier, Jessica Dismorr, Václav Špála, Henri Laurens, and Max Oppenheimer.

• The interwar years
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