La Tour — Robert Delaunay

DETAILS

Artist: Robert Delaunay
Date: 1926
Medium: lithograph
Location: Cleveland Museum of Art
Dimensions: [object Object]
Collection: Prints
Culture: France, 20th century
Credit line: John L. Severance Fund

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THE ARTIST

Robert Delaunay

Robert Delaunay, co-founder of Orphism, painted with a "monumental vision of the world," using bold colors and geometric shapes to explore light and depth.

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Same era · 1910s–1940s American Gothic Okada Saburosuke · 1930 · Art Institute of Chicago

Same era · 1910s–1940s Bull's Head Mikhail Larionov · 1913 · Tretyakov Gallery

Same era · 1910s–1940s Lemons on a Pewter Plate Henri Matisse · 1926 · Art Institute of Chicago