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, Simulaneous Contrasts Sun and Moon mk87
c.1912/13
Oil on canvas
diameter 134.5cm
New York,The Museum of Modern Art
