Pomegranate Robert Delaunay: Relief-disques 1000-Piece Puzzle

Available from The Red Balloon Company when we last checked. Sold from the shop’s own store; the price there is the one that counts.

A cofounder of the Orphism art movement, Robert Delaunay was one of the earliest completely nonrepresentational painters. With his wife, Sonia Delaunay, and others at its helm, Orphism integrated strong color and geometric shapes into the inspirational school of Cubism that was taking the Paris art world by storm at the onset of the 20th century. In Relief-disques, Delaunay mixed sand with the gouache paint to create texture and dimension, the details of which are visible in this reproduction. H