Artist : Delaunay Robert (1885-1941)

Title : Paris, the Seine and the Ile de la Cité

Signature : No

Dimensions: 28 x 22.5 cm 

Technique: Lithography

Number : No, one of the 25 lithographs excluding trade added to the draw of 340 copies

Support: Paper arches 

Date : 1926

Management : No

Provenance: Certified origin, the invoice engages the responsibility of the gallery as to the authenticity of the work.

State : Excellent

Comments from our expert: In 1907, Robert DELAUNAY began an artistic work on the monuments of Paris which he decided to extend in 1926 by the development of around twenty lithographs including Paris, LA Seine and the Ile de la Cité. We immediately feel in this lithography the influence of cubism and in particular of Picasso on the artist. This lithography is a work characteristic of the period where Delaunay wonders about the relevance of cubism and futurism before switching to abstraction with Orphism and Simultanism. To make the link and understand the work in more detail, we advise you to read the artist's biography below.

Artist's biography: 

At the beginning of the 20th century the artist of French origin Robert DELAUNAY (1885-1941) and his wife Sonia Delaunay-Terk are among the Pioneers of abstraction with Kandinsky, Mondrian and Malevitch. Abstraction has its origins from the scientific understanding of visual and sound perceptions but also from esotericism and spirituality. She will lead these artists to delete the representation of reality for a release of color and line. For Robert DELAUNAY and the members of this artistic trend, it is a personal, thoughtful, philosophical and emotional approach, enriched by travel, the ambient political context but also by the fawn, expressionist and cubist movements that they assimilate while adding their experience. In the history of art, abstraction is not only a movement, it appears as a breakup Between 1910 and 1920. Robert DELAUNAY is the main creator of two movements: Orphism and Simultism.

Delaunay is part of an avant-garde generation, particularly prolific on the artistic level between 1912 and 1914. It is very linked (in correspondence, in art, even in friendship) with the poets Guillaume Apollinaire and Blaise Cendrars, Russian painters Vassily Kandinsky And Michel Larionov, German painters August Macke Or Franz Marc, the painter Slovak Geza Szobel.

After the war, he became friends with the artists of the surrealist movement, of which he produced several portraits, without adopting their points of view and their artistic visions. He will notably have a strong and lasting friendship with the poet Tristan Tzara.