Delaunay, Robert 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, Portugese Woman 1916(1916)
Medium oil on canvas
Dimensions 53.5 X 63.375 in (135.9 X 161 cm)
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