Homage to Blériot

Prints and Drawings

c. 1914

Robert Delaunay
French, 1885-1941

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Department: Prints and Drawings

Artist: Robert Delaunay
Title: Homage to Blériot
Place: France (Artist's nationality:)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: 1909–1919
Medium: Lithographic crayon, with stumping on ivory wove lithographic transfer paper
Inscriptions: Inscribed verso, lower left, in graphite: "Robert Delauany: Avions Teekining"
Dimensions: 50 × 58.5 cm (19 11/16 × 23 1/16 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of Dorothy Braude Edinburg to the Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection
Reference Number: 1998.731

Una Johnson, 20th Century Drawings (New York, 1964), no. 44 (ill.).

Wellesley, Mass., Wellesley College Art Museum, April 1963.
New York, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, “20th Century Master Drawings,” November 6, 1963–January 5, 1964, cat. 26, traveled to the University Gallery at the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, February. 3–March 15, 1964, and the Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, April. 6–May 24, 1964.
Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, November 1964-1965.
Cambridge, Mass., Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, 1967–1968.
Waltham, Mass., Dreitzer Gallery, Brandeis University, “50 Drawings by 50 Modern Masters,” February 22–April 5, 1970.
Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, 1979.
Boston, Institute of Contemporary Art, 1979.
Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, 1980.
The Art Institute of Chicago, “Drawn to Form: Modern Drawings,” June 11–September 7, 1999, cat. 13.
The Art Institute of Chicago, “Drawings in Dialogue: Old Master Through Modern, The Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection,” June 3–July 30, 2006, pp. 14 and 155, cat. 108 (ill.).

Estate of the artist [blind stamp: (ATELEIER / R. DELAUNAY / 198 MALESHERBES / PARIS, recto, lower left]. Sold by Rose Fried Gallery, New York, to Dorothy Braude Edinburg; given to the Art Institute, 1998.

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