Robert Delaunay
Portuguese Still Life
1914
Physical Qualities
Oil on canvas, 44 1/4 x 55 1/4 in. (112.4 x 140.3 cm.)
Credit Line
Bequest of Saidie A. May
Object Number
1951.286
The Baltimore Museum of Art by bequest, 1951 ; Saidie A. May by purchase, 1950; from Sidney Janis Gallery, New York; Collection Mme. Sonia Delaunay.
Sidney Janis Gallery, New York, 1949, no. 13.
Sidney Janis Gallery, New York, "Fifth Anniversary Exhibition", 1953, cat. 8, ill.
Baltimore Museum of Art, "Still Life-Fruit and Flowers", March 7-April 4, 1961, cat. 35.
Baltimore Museum of Art, "20th Century European Paintings and Sculpture", July 9-September 23, 1969.
Baltimore Museum of Art, "Saidie A. May Collection", September 6-November 22, 1972, no. 55, ill.
Helen Molesworth and Katy Rothkopf, Baltimore Museum of Art, "European Abstraction from the Collection 1912-1948", February 28-December 2, 2001.
Sidney Janis Gallery, New York, "Fifth Anniversary Exhibition", 1953, cat. 8, ill.
Baltimore Museum of Art, "Still Life-Fruit and Flowers", March 7-April 4, 1961, cat. 35.
Baltimore Museum of Art, "20th Century European Paintings and Sculpture", July 9-September 23, 1969.
Baltimore Museum of Art, "Saidie A. May Collection", September 6-November 22, 1972, no. 55, ill.
Helen Molesworth and Katy Rothkopf, Baltimore Museum of Art, "European Abstraction from the Collection 1912-1948", February 28-December 2, 2001.
The Baltimore Museum of Art, "A Picture Book," 1955, ill. p. 66.
Jacques Lassaigne, "L'oeuvre de Robert Delaunay au Musee National d'Arte Moderne," "Chroniques du Jours," supp. au no. 9, "XXe Siecle," (June 1957), ill.
Pierre Francastel and Guy Habasque, "Robert Delaunay: Du Cubisme a l'Art Abstract," Paris: S.E.V.P.E.N., 1957, pp. 276-277, no. 163.
Daniel Robbins, "From Cubism to Abstract Art: The Evolution of the Work of Gleizes and Delaunay," "BMA News Quarterly," 25:3, Spring 1962, pp. 9-12, ill. p. 15.
Kent Roberts Greenfield, "The Museum: Its First Half Century," "BMA Annual I," 1966, ill. p. 66.
Susan Helen Adler, "Saidie May Pioneer of Early 20th Century Collecting" Baltimore: Stonehouse Design, 2008, p. 255.
Inscribed: Signed, lower right, "r. delaunay"
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