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Robert Delaunay

French painter and theoretician (Paris 1885-Montpellier 1941) whose colour-contrast painting Apollinaire named Orphism in 1912; he returned to abstraction around 1930 and, with Sonia Delaunay, made large decorative panels and reliefs in Paris at the end of his life.

About Robert Delaunay

French painter and theoretician (Paris 1885-Montpellier 1941) whose colour-contrast painting Apollinaire named Orphism in 1912; he returned to abstraction around 1930 and, with Sonia Delaunay, made large decorative panels and reliefs in Paris at the end of his life.