Robert Delaunay

Robert Delaunay: Born: April 12, 1885, Paris, France.

Apprenticed in a studio for theater sets in Belleville in 1902.

By 1904 he was exhibiting.

Served in the military in Laon from 1907 - 08.

In 1910, he married Sonia Terk.

His first solo at the Galerie Barbazanges, Paris, in 1912.

Commissioned to decorate the "Palais des Chemins de Fer" and "Palais de l’Air", at the Paris World’s Fair.