Modern and Contemporary Art Reverse of Philadelphia Museum of
Art, 1950-134-42aMade in France, Europe Robert Delaunay, French,
1885 - 1941 Oil on canvas 1950-134-42bThe Louise and Walter
Arensberg Collection, 1950 LabelThe 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. * Works in the collection
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