Female Nude Reading (1915). Robert Delaunay (French, 1885-1941). Oil on canvas. San Diego Museum of
Female Nude Reading (1915). Robert Delaunay (French, 1885-1941). Oil on canvas. San Diego Museum of Art.Toeing the line of true abstraction, this painting belongs to the series of female nudes – exceptional among Delaunay’s oeuvre – executed in Spain, where the artist and his wife had withdrawn during World War I. The overlapping constellation of circular motifs at the edges of the picture are more typical of his work and recalls the so-called color-wheels of Michel Eugène Chevreul, the 19th century chemist whose theory of simultaneous contrasts had also been a touch-stone of Impressionism. -- source link
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