Series - The Eiffel Tower in art

The Eiffel Tower - Construction

Work on the foundations of the Eiffel Tower. Photo taken by Pierre Lanith in 1887.

On July 24, 1887, this is where pile number 4 of the Eiffel Tower stands! Incredible wooden scaffolding!

The Eiffel Tower, Pile No. 4 photographed on October 30, 1887.

The Eiffel Tower on February 19, 1888, under the snow!

Another photo of the Eiffel Tower, one year to the day later, on February 19, 1889, it already reached 285 meters. Only a few meters left!

The Eiffel Tower inspires artists

Picasso. "Picasso and Manuel Pallarès contemplating the Eiffel Tower", 1900.
This small drawing of only 11cm was donated by Pablo himself to the Barcelona museum.

Bernard Buffet, The Eiffel Tower, 1988.

In 2014, Robert Combas saw double for the Eiffel Paris Jumping poster…

Georges Seurat, 1889.

Henri Rousseau, 1898.

Louis-Welden Hawkins, circa 1905.

It was the gallery owner Bruno Bichofberger who organized the meeting between Andy Warhol and Jean-Michel Basquiat, it was 1982 and almost no one was interested in the work of this young artist. Mutual love at first sight!
Warhol introduced Basquiat to screen printing and Basquiat gave Warhol a taste for painting again. It was, according to Keith Haring, "a kind of physical conversation, which took place through colors, not through words." This fantastic duo will create around a hundred works together.
In 1985, the two artists had already been working, intermittently, for two years together. Thanks to a trip to Paris, this extraordinary painting was born. Warhol begins by screen printing a view of Paris and two Eiffel Towers highlighted in white. Basquiat then painted green frogs, Froggies, as the French are nicknamed, then imposing French flags complete the whole thing.
This is also, sometimes, the role in the history of art of “Gallerists” or “Galériens” as Gasiorowski said.

Pierre Bonnard, 1906.

Robert Delaunay, 1926.

Robert Delaunay, 1912

Another fireworks display at the Eiffel Tower, Robert Delaunay, 1922.

Diego Rivera, 1914.

Raoul Dufy, 1935.

Tapestry project by Raoul Dufy, 1937.

Jean Dufy, The Seine at the Pont du Carrousel, circa 1945.

Marc Chagall and the Eiffel Tower, it's a long story.
He painted it, drew it, engraved it, in all colors, in all directions, at all times of his life,
"The Passy Bridge and the Eiffel Tower", 1911.
Chagall painted this painting in 1911, a year after seeing the Eiffel Tower for the first time during his trip to Paris from Russia, his native country.
He looks like Raoul Dufy!

Marc Chagall, The Bride and Groom of the Eiffel Tower, 1938.

Marc Chagall, 1954

What an adventure ! This Chagall triggered an incredible mobilization of Canadians. Indeed, the NGC, Museum of Fine Arts of Canada, wanted, through its sale, to finance the acquisition of Saint Jérôme by Jacques-Louis David, dating from 1779, in order to “save this heritage work” and prevent it from to leave Canada.

There mobilization was so strong that the Saint Jérôme was classified and no longer feared leaving Canada, as a result, there was no need to sell the Chagall.

“View of the Eiffel Tower”, 1898 by Henri Rousseau. It's him, the painter who made me love art, yes, it's neither Chagall, nor Miró, nor the other artists who were part of my family's daily life, but the "Customs Officer".

Raymond Hains, 1971.

Nicolas de Staël, 1954.

Marc Chagall, in January 1959 photographed by Richard Avedon.

Catherine Deneuve.

Gabriel Loppé, The Eiffel Tower struck by lightning, photo taken on June 3, 1902.

The Eiffel Tower seen from Place de la Concorde.

Photo Robert Doisneau, 1969.

Marc Riboud, “Eiffel Tower”, 1953.

Feat! In 1900, a prize of 100,000 francs was offered to the first airship pilot who, leaving from Saint-Cloud, managed to circumvent the Eiffel Tower in less than 30 minutes round trip.

Alberto Santos Dumont achieved the feat on his third attempt on October 19, 1901. The airship was built in 1901-1903 in Moisson by engineer Henri Julliot and financed by the Lebaudy brothers, sugar industrialists. In 1898 he had his first airship built, equipped with a De Dion-Bouton engine, by the French aerostat manufacturer Henri Lachambre, who would subsequently manufacture all of his airships. Between 1898 and 1907, Santos-Dumont launched the manufacture of a dozen airships.

Valérie, editor Oana Ivan, sculptor Benoit Lemercier, model Diana Moldovan, Yoyo Maeght and artist Aki Kuroda.

While wandering around the top floor of the Center Pompidou, I caught this sunset behind the Eiffel Tower, transforming it into a rocket taking off.