Delaunay, Robert 1912
Oil on canvas and wood (painted frame),46 x 40 cm
Hamburg,Hamburger Kunsthalle Simultaneous Windows on the City (mk09) French Cubist Painter, 1885-1941
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,