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Robert Delaunay (1885-1941)  

Aliases: Robert (1885) Delaunay
Professions: Painter; Illustrator; Decoration painter

Biography

(b Paris, 12 April 1885; d Montpellier, 25 Oct 1941). French painter, printmaker and writer. Taking Cubism as one of his points of departure, he first developed a vocabulary of colour planes only distantly dependent on observed motifs, and by the 1930s he had arrived at a purely self-sufficient language of geometric forms. He remained active as a theoretician until the end of his life, leaving a legacy of influential writings on the development of ... (view more)

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Literature: Books and Other References on Delaunay

'Visions of Paris: Robert Delaunay''s Series'
by Mark Rosenthal, Matthew Drutt

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Web Resources with information about Delaunay - 12

Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art Collections Search Robert DELAUNAY
Robert et Sonia Delaunay, Donation Sonia et Charles Delaunay
Biografía DELAUNAY, Robert - Museum Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid, Spain
Media Art Net | Delaunay, Robert: Biography
Media Art Net | Sound and Image | Sounding Image
Find in a Library: Robert Delaunay, 1885-1941 : [exposition ...
Geometry.Net - Artists: Delaunay Robert
Robert Delaunay - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
MoMA.org | The Collection | Robert Delaunay. (French, 1885-1941)
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Guggenheim Hermitage Museum - Delaunay
Guggenheim Museum - Past Exhibitions - Visions of Paris: Robert Delaunay's Serie