Study for Portrait of Philippe Soupault
Date
(1922)
Artist
Robert Delaunay, French, b. Paris, 1885–1941
Provenance
The Artist, Paris, to 1941
Mme Sonia Delaunay, Paris, 1941-1957 (estate of the artist)
Private Collection, Paris, late 1957-1958
Fine Art Associates, New York, by 13 January 1959
Marlborough Fine Art, London, by July 1966
M. Knoedler & Co., New York, to 4 June 1969
Joseph H. Hirshhorn, New York, 4 June 1969-6 March 1972
Gift of Joseph H. Hirshhorn, 1972
Exhibition History
MUSEE NATIONAL D'ART MODERNE, Paris. "Le Dessin de Toulouse-Lautrec aux Cubistes," Summer 1954, no. 30, pl. 5.
MUSEE DES BEAUX-ARTS, Liege, Belgium. "Robert Delaunay," April-May 1955, no. 8.
PALAIS DES BEAUX-ARTS, Brussels. "De Toulouse-Lautrec a Chagall: Dessins, Aquarelles, Gouaches," 3 March-22 April 1956, no. 23, pl. 57.
MUSEE NATIONAL D'ART MODERNE, Paris. "Robert Delaunay (1885-1941)," 25 May-30 September 1957, no. 63, pl. 23.
STEDELIJK MUSEUM, Amsterdam. "Robert Delaunay," 18 October-1 December 1957, no. 37, ill. TOUR: STEDELIJK VAN ABBE MUSEUM, Eindoven, Holland, early 1958; ART COUNCIL GALLERY, London, April 1958, no. 31.
FINE ARTS ASSOCIATES, New York. "Robert Delaunay: Paintings," 13-31 January 1959, no. 9, cover ill.
FINE ARTS ASSOCIATES, New York. "Summer-Fall 1959," June-31 July 1959, no. 10, ill.
MARLBOROUGH FINE ART, London. "19th and 20th Century Masters," July-August 1966, no. 14, ill.
MARLBOROUGH FINE ART, London. "Kandinsky and His Friends, Centenary Exhibition," November-December 1966, no. 46, ill. p. 30.
HIRSHHORN MUSEUM AND SCULPTURE GARDEN, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC. "Inaugural Exhibition," 4 October 1974-15 September 1975, no. 398.
ORANGERIE DES TUILERIES, Paris. "Robert Delaunay (1885-1941)," 25 May-30 August 1976, no. 69, ill. p. 93. TOUR: STAATLICHE KUNSTHALLE, Baden-Baden, Germany, 25 September-14 November 1976, no. 65, ill. p. 162.
STAATLICHE MUSEEN PREUSSISCHER KULTURBESITZ (NEUE NATIONALGALERIE), West Berlin. "Tendenzen der Zwanziger Jahre," 14 August-16 October 1977, no. 4/36, ill. TOUR: AKADEMIE DER KUNSTE, West Berlin; GROSSE ORANGERIE IN SCHLOSS CHARLOTTENBERG, West Berlin.
FUNDACION JUAN MARCH, Madrid. "Robert y Sonia Delaunay," April-May 1982, ill.
MUSEE D'ART MODERNE DE LA VILLE DE PARIS, Paris. "Homage a Robert et Sonia Delaunay," 15 May-8 September 1985.
BAYERISCH STAATSGEMALDESAMMLUNGEN, Munchen, West Germany. "Delaunay und Deutschland," 4 October 1985-19 January 1986, no. 86, p. 364, ill. p. 341.
MUSEE PICASSO, Barcelona, Spain. "Robert and Sonia Delaunay," 19 October-21 January 2001, no. 97, ill. p. 182.
HIRSHHORN MUSEUM AND SCULPTURE GARDEN, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC. "Masterworks from the Hirshhorn Collection," 9 June 2016-6 August 2017, no cat.
Published References
COURTHION, PIERRE. "Apollinaire notre patron," XXe Siecle, n.s., no. 3, (June 1952), p. 121, ill.
HABASQUE, GUY. "Catalogue de l'oeuvre de Robert Delaunay," in Pierre Francastel (ed.), Du Cubism a l'art abstrait, (Paris: S.E.V.P.E.N., 1957), no. 195, p. 282.
COURTHION, PIERRE. L'Art Independant: panorama international de 1900 a nos jours (Paris: Editions Albin Michel, 1958), ill. opp. p. 104.
SAWIN, MARTICA. "New York Letter," Art International 3/1-2 (1959), p. 46.
STILES. GEORGE. "Gallery Previews in New York," Pictures on Exhibit, 22/9 (New York: Pictures Pub., June 1959), p. 16.
MUSEE DES BEAUX-ARTS, Nancy. Sonia Delaunay/Robert Delaunay, 29 June-11 September 1972, no. 65, p. 15.
LERNER, ABRAM. An Introduction to the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden (New York: Abrams, 1974), no. 56, ill.
LERNER, ABRAM, et al. The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden (New York: Abrams, 1974), p. 682, colorpl. 398, p. 285.
"Expositions," Gazette des Beaux-Arts, no. 1294 (November 1976), p. 12.
HOOG, MICHEL. Robert Delaunay (Paris: Flammarion, 1976), colorpl. p. 76.
HASLAM, MALCOM. The Real World of the Surrealists (London: Weidenfeld and Nicholson, 1978), ill. p. 81, p. 82.
(Art Calendar 1979), DuMont Bucherverlag, 1978, colorpl. 1.
DEITCH, JEFFREY. "Cultural Geometry," in a catalogue in conjuction with an exhibition by Deste Foundation, 18 January-17 April 1988, ill. p. 24, p. 25.
FINCH, CHRISTOPHER. Twentieth-Century Watercolors (New York: Abberville Press, 1988), no. 133, ill. p. 117, p. 114.
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Credit Line
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, Gift of Joseph H. Hirshhorn, 1972
Data Source
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden
Accession Number
72.94
Type
Painting
Medium
Charcoal, watercolor, and chalk on paper mounted to canvas
Dimensions
76 3/4 x 51 1/8 in. (194.9 x 129.9 cm)
