<La Ville n°2>

Between 1909 and 1911, the Cubist painter Robert Delaunay created a series of paintings dedicated to the city of Paris. In this bird’s eye view of the rooftops of the French capital, the Eiffel Tower’s recognisable pointillist silhouette is filtered through a window framed by curtains, with its reflections suggested by a small checkerboard pattern. The extreme fragmentation of the planes and the monochrome tones are typical of the “Analytical” Cubism of Georges Braque and Pablo Picasso.