Its leading figures included Czech artist František Kupka (1871-1957) and French artists Robert Delaunay (1885-1941) and Sonia Delaunay (1885-1979). Robert Delaunay, Windows Open ...

Twenty-three of the works in this exhibition were pulled from the Guggenheim’s collection and many, including Robert Delaunay’s Eiffel Tower (Tour Eiffel)(1911, inscribed 1910). Read our pick of the ...

Sonia Delaunay was born to a poor Ukrainian family in 1885, survived two World Wars, and died wealthy in Paris in 1979. In between, she co-founded the French avant-garde movement Orphism with her ...

As the wall text notes, the painters most closely affiliated with Orphism-Robert and Sonia Delaunay, Francis Picabia, and František Kupka-never adapted Apollinaire's term of designation as their own.

It was Uhde that introduced her to her future husband Robert Delaunay. Having left Uhde for Delaunay, the new couple pioneered a fusion of Cubism and Neo-Impressionism, later deemed Orphism by the ...