This exquisite piece was printed by pochoir master Daniel Jacomet and published for the rare XXe Siecle (issue number 9) in 1957.
Measures 12.25" x 9.25" overall.
Beautifully executed and expressing a range of subtle pastel colors.
Not signed.
About the artist:
Painter Robert Delaunay was a pioneer in the movement towards pure abstraction in the early 20th century. Delaunay, alongside artists including his wife, Sonia, and František Kupka, imbued the fragmented forms and prismatic picture planes of Cubism with a dynamic sense of gesture and dizzying Fauvist hues. Poet Guillame Apollinaire referred to this lyrical style as “Orphism.” Delaunay’s experiments combining figuration with nonrepresentational perspectives influenced avant-garde movements such as Futurism. Early in his career, the artist apprenticed as a set designer—a discipline he later embraced when he designed for the Ballets Russes and various large-scale, site-specific commissions. Delaunay’s work has sold for seven figures on the secondary market and belongs in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Centre Pompidou, the Kunstmuseum Basel, and the Guggenheim Museum, among other institutions.
