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La tour aux rideaux, 1910

Robert Delaunay

On view at K20

Information

Artist

Robert Delaunay

1885
Paris, Frankreich

1941
Montpellier, Frankreich

Work data

Material/Technique

Oil on canvas

Dimensions

Image: 116 × 97 cm
Frame: 139.8 × 121.2 × 8.5 cm

Signature

Bez. u.r.: "r. delaunay" (Eine Inschrift und die Datierung 191? u.M. sind übermalt)

Accession Number

1018

Acquisition year

1965

Provenance

The painting “La tour aux rideaux” by Robert Delaunay remained the property of the artist from its creation in 1910 until presumably 1931. In 1931, Jean Coutrot had lent Sonia and Robert Delaunay 10,000 francs and received two paintings as collateral, one of which was described as “Fenêtre sur la Tour Eiffel.” As the work in the art collection can be proven to have been owned by Coutrot from 1935, it can be assumed that this was the painting that was given to Coutrot as collateral in 1931. After Coutrot died of suicide in 1941, the work remained the property of his wife until at least 1953. The Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen purchased the painting “La tour aux rideaux” from Galerie Werner Rusche for its holdings in 1965.

Credit line

Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf
Erworben 1965 aus einer Spende des Westdeutschen Rundfunks

Exhibitions
  • In the Footsteps of Impressionism: Robert Delaunay's Series, 5.11.1997-14.2.1998, Deutsche Guggenheim Berlin/The Salomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York
  • Robert Delaunay, de l'Impressionisme à l'Abstraction, 1906-1914, 31.5.-15.8.1999, Musée national d'art moderne, Paris
  • Unser 20. Jahrhundert - Meisterwerke von Picasso bis Beuys, 14.7.-28.10.2000, Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf
  • Robert und Sonia Delaunay, 7.10.2002-11.1.2003, Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid
  • Silent Revolution - Eine neue Sammlungspräsentation, 26.2.-12.6.2010, Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, K21 Ständehaus, Düsseldorf
  • 100 Jahre Kniende. Lehmbruck mit Matisse, Brancusi, Debussy, Archipenko, Rodin, Nijinsky in Paris 1911, 23.9.2011-21.1.2012, LehmbruckMuseum, Duisburg
  • Fresh Widow. Fenster-Bilder seit Matisse und Duchamp/Fresh Widow. The Window in Art since Matisse and Duchamp, 30.3.-11.8.2012, Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf, K20 Grabbeplatz
  • Mondriaan en het kubisme, Parijs 1912-1914 / Mondrian and Cubism, 24.1.-10.5.2014, Gemeentemuseum Den Haag
  • Hinter dem Vorhang. Verhüllung und Enthüllung seit der Renaissance - von Tizian bis Christo, 30.9.2016-21.1.2017, Museum Kunstpalast, Düsseldorf
  • museum global. Mikrogeschichten einer ex-zentrischen Moderne/museum global. Microhistories of an Ex-centric Modernism, 9.11.2018-9.3.2019, K20 Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Grabbeplatz
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Modern Art city Cubism
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