Eiffel Tower
Reverse of Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1950-134-42a
Robert Delaunay, French, 1885 - 1941
Geography:
Made in France, Europe
Date:
c. 1909Medium:
Oil on canvasDimensions:
38 x 27 3/4 inches (96.5 x 70.5 cm)Curatorial Department:
Modern ArtObject Location:
1950-134-42bCredit Line:
The Louise and Walter Arensberg Collection, 1950
Made in France, Europe
Date:
c. 1909Medium:
Oil on canvasDimensions:
38 x 27 3/4 inches (96.5 x 70.5 cm)Curatorial Department:
Modern ArtObject Location:
Currently not on view
Accession Number:1950-134-42bCredit Line:
The Louise and Walter Arensberg Collection, 1950
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The French artist Robert Delaunay completed a remarkable series of paintings of the Eiffel Tower between 1909 and 1914 in which the vertiginous iron structure is fragmented and distorted through shifting perspectives and prismatic color. By the time the artist completed this version, the Eiffel Tower, which was built for the 1889 Exposition universelle in Paris, had become a symbol of technological progress and modernity.
