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The City, No. 2 Robert Delaunay, 1910
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The City, No. 2

Robert Delaunay · 1910

Why it's great

The towers and bridges of Paris are shattered into gray and green slivers, as if you were looking through a prism. Robert Delaunay painted this in 1910, as he was beginning to see color as light.

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About the artist

Robert Delaunay

1885–1941 · born in Paris · died in Montpellier

Robert Delaunay was a French painter born in Paris in 1885. With his wife Sonia, he invented a colorful style called Orphism and painted the Eiffel Tower, windows and circles of color. He spent the war years in Spain and Portugal, and died in Montpellier in 1941.

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