Robert Delaunay

Robert-Victor-Félix Delaunay was born April 12, 1885, in Paris. In 1902, after secondary education, he apprenticed in a studio for theater sets in Belleville. In 1903, he started painting and by 1904 was exhibiting, that year and in 1906 at the Salon d’Automne and from 1904 until World War I at the Salon des Indépendants…

Delaunay’s work in San Francisco Museums

Delaunay’s early paintings were in an impressionist style, but in 1906 he began experimenting with the abstract qualities of colour. He was interested in the interaction of colour and movement, partly inspired by the work of Seurat…

Works in the MOMA collection

A nude woman with abundant wavy blond hair sits on a seat at a dressing-table and reads. Her body is poised at an oblique angle to the spectator’s gaze…