Eiffel Tower

Gallery 272, Modern and Contemporary Art, second floor (Alchin/Marryatt Gallery)

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Eiffel Tower

c. 1909

Robert Delaunay (French, 1885–1941)

The French artist Robert Delaunay completed a remarkable series of paintings of the Eiffel Tower between 1909 and 1914 in which the vertiginous iron structure is fragmented and distorted through shifting perspectives and prismatic color. By the time the artist completed this version, the Eiffel Tower, which was built for the 1889 Exposition universelle in Paris, had become a symbol of technological progress and modernity.

Gallery 272, Modern and Contemporary Art, second floor (Alchin/Marryatt Gallery)

Object Details

Title:

Eiffel Tower

Date:

c. 1909

Artist:

Robert Delaunay (French, 1885–1941)

Medium:

Oil on canvas

Dimensions:

38 × 27 3/4 inches (96.5 × 70.5 cm)

Classification:

Paintings

Credit Line:

The Louise and Walter Arensberg Collection, 1950

Accession Number:

1950-134-42b

Geography:

Made in France, Europe

Provenance

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Gallery 272, Modern and Contemporary Art, second floor (Alchin/Marryatt Gallery)

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