The Eiffel Tower and Curtain
Robert Delaunay was fascinated by the Eiffel Tower, which was erected in 1889 to commemorate the centennial of the French Revolution. For the next forty years (until the construction of New York’s Chrysler Building), the Eiffel Tower remained the tallest structure in the world and was visible throughout the French capital. Between 1909–12 and again from 1920–30, Delaunay represented the Eiffel Tower from all vantage points. His early Cubist depictions of the tower often show it flanked by more traditional buildings, but here, in a drawing made the year that Delaunay married the artist Sonia Terk, he shows the tower from a domestic interior, with pulled-back curtains on either side.
Artwork Details
- Title: The Eiffel Tower and Curtain
- Artist: Robert Delaunay (French, Paris 1885–1941 Montpellier)
- Date: 1910
- Medium: Lithograph crayon on brown paper
- Dimensions: 15 1/2 x 13 in. (39.4 x 33 cm)
- Classification: Drawings
- Credit Line: Leonard A. Lauder Cubist Collection, Gift of Leonard A. Lauder, 2016
- Object Number: 2016.237.36
- Curatorial Department: Modern and Contemporary Art
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