is like a mini-Delaunay retrospective. It was the Delaunays’ good friend, the French poet-critic Guillaume Apollinaire, who, in 1912, coined the term “Orphism” or “Orphic Cubism” (he ...

Without his example, Cubism would have been impossible ... The so-called Orphists, Robert and Sonia Delaunay prominent among them, have never achieved comparable fame. Part of the reason is ...

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 ...