
Art Institute of Chicago
Homage to Blériot
Robert Delaunay · c. 1914
Provenance
Ownership history
- 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.
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
Exhibitions
Exhibition history
- 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.).
Literature
Published references
- Una Johnson, 20th Century Drawings (New York, 1964), no. 44 (ill.).
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