Eiffel Tower and Gardens, Champ de Mars (La Tour Eiffel et Jardin du Champ de Mars)
Date
(1922)
Artist
Robert Delaunay, French, b. Paris, 1885–1941
Provenance
[Dr. Viard, Paris, (Delaunay's doctor)]
Mme. Sonia Delaunay, Paris to at least 1957
Fine Arts Association, New York
M. Knoedler & Co., New York, December 1958-4 June 1969
Joseph H. Hirshhorn, New York and Washington, DC, 4 June 1969-31 August 1981
Estate of Joseph H. Hirshhorn, 1981-1986
Joseph H. Hirshhorn Bequest, 1981
Exhibition History
SOLOMON R. GUGGENHEIM MUSEUM, New York. "Robert Delaunay," 23 March-22 May 1955.
STADTISCHES MUSEUM MORSBROICH, Leverkusen, Germany. "Robert Delaunay," 7 June-15 July 1956, no. 48. Tour: KUNSTVEREIN, Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany, 22 July-19 August.
MUSEE MATIONAL D'ART MODERNE, Paris. "Robert Delaunay (1885-1941)," 25 May-30 September 1957, no. 64, pl. 21.
FINE ARTS ASSOCIATES, New York. "Robert Delaunay, Paintings," 13-31 January 1959, no. 10, ill.
KUNSTVEREIN, Hamburg. "Robert Delaunay," 26 January-11 March 1962, no. 40. Tour: WALLRAF-RICHARTZ MUSEUM, Cologne, 24 March-4 May; KUNSTVEREIN, Frankfurt, 18 May-24 June.
HIRSHHORN MUSEUM AND SCULPTURE GARDEN, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC. "Collection in Context: Metropolis in the Machine Age," 28 February-2 September 2002, no cat.
NATIONAL AIR AND SPACE MUSEUM, Washington, DC. "The Wright Brothers and the Aerial Age," 11 October 2003-31 December 2012.
CENTRE POMPIDOU-METZ, France. “Vues d’en Haut (Views from Above),” 17 May-7 October 2013, no. 56, p. 80, color ill. p. 81; p. 416.
HIRSHHORN MUSEUM AND SCULPTURE GARDEN, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC. "Manifesto: Art x Agency," 15 June 2019-31 January 2020.
Published References
Robert Delaunay: Photo Archives, New York, Museum of Modern Art, (S.D. 730 H. 197).
OZENFANT, AMEDEE. Art (Paris: 1928), p. 114.
OZENFANT, AMEDEE. Foundations of Modern Art (New York: Dover Books, 1931, reprint 1952), p. 109.
HABASQUE, GUY. "Catalogue de l'oeuvre de Robert Delaunay," in Pierre Francastel (ed.), Du Cubisme a l'Art Abstrait (Paris: S.E.V.P.E.N., 1957), no. 197, pl. 5.
[HECHT, AXEL?]. "Ohne Fotos keine Gemalde," Art. Das Kunstmagazin (January 1984), pp. 24, 25.
SCHUSTER, PETER-KLAUS, ed. Delaunay and Deutschland (Koln: DuMont Buchverlag, 1985), p. 378.
AQUIN, STEPHANE, et al. Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden: The Collection (New York: DelMonico Books, 2022), pl. 70, p. 90.
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Credit Line
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, The Joseph H. Hirshhorn Bequest, 1981
Data Source
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden
Accession Number
86.1421
Type
Painting
Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
70 1/8 x 67 1/8 in. (178.1 x 170.4 cm)
