Homage to Blériot
1914 · Tempera on canvas · Kunstmuseum Basel
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About this work
- Artist
- Robert Delaunay (1885–1941)
- Year
- 1914
- Medium
- Tempera on canvas
- Original size
- 250 × 251 cm
- Collection
- Kunstmuseum Basel
- Movement
- Orphism
Concentric discs and rings of red, yellow, blue, green and violet spin across a square canvas two and a half metres wide; among them, at upper right, a biplane flies above a small Eiffel Tower, and at lower left a propeller turns. Delaunay painted it in tempera in 1914 as a tribute to Louis Blériot, the aviation pioneer who had flown across the English Channel in 1909. An inscription at lower left dedicates the first simultaneous solar discs to the great builder Blériot, honouring him as a constructor of machines rather than as a pilot. The circular forms come from Delaunay's study of the chemist Michel-Eugène Chevreul's laws of simultaneous colour contrast, and the poet Guillaume Apollinaire had called this kind of painting Orphism. A second version is in the Musée de Grenoble. This one is in the Kunstmuseum Basel.
This exhibition-poster edition shows the whole work beneath original typography set in-house. The original is in the public domain.
Where it works
Spinning discs of red, yellow, blue and violet with a biplane and a propeller, for a child's room, playroom or living room at 24×36 in natural wood. A white, sky blue or warm grey wall; it pairs with Delaunay's Eiffel Tower.
Style, size & framing detail
- Style
- Exhibition poster of a Orphism painting
- Era
- 20th century (1914)
- Orientation
- Portrait
- Palette
- cream & beige
- Mood
- classic
- Rooms
- living room, kids room, dining room, dorm room, hallway or entryway
- Good gift for
- housewarming, art lovers
Size. We'd hang this one at 24×36. Prints at 12×18, 16×24, 24×36 in — 12×18 for a shelf, desk or a gallery-wall grid; 16×24 above a desk, console or in a hallway; 24×36 as the statement piece above a sofa or bed.
Framing. Exhibition posters sit best in a slim black frame with no mat — the typeset margin is the mat.
Pairing. Pairs as a set of three with other famous painting prints (10% off three or more).
Details & materials
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About this design
The Madten promise
A fine-art print
The same artwork as a clean fine-art print — the image shown large with a minimal caption.
