Featuring around 100 artworks to be presented in the museum’s iconic rotunda, this major exhibition will examine the vibrant abstract art of Orphism. It will explore the transnational movement’s developments in Paris, addressing the impact dance, music, and poetry had on the art, among other themes.

Orphism emerged in the early 1910s, when the innovations brought about by modern life were radically altering conceptions of time and space. Artists connected to Orphism engaged with ideas of simultaneity in kaleidoscopic compositions, investigating the transformative possibilities of color, form, and motion. Selected works by artists including Robert Delaunay, Sonia Delaunay, Marcel Duchamp, Mainie Jellett, František Kupka, Francis Picabia, and Amadeo de Souza-Cardoso, and by the Synchromists Stanton Macdonald-Wright and Morgan Russell, will be on view.

Harmony and Dissonance: Orphism in Paris, 1910–1930 is organized by Tracey Bashkoff, Senior Director of Collections and Senior Curator, and Vivien Greene, Senior Curator, 19th- and Early 20th-Century Art.

The Leadership Committee for Harmony and Dissonance: Orphism in Paris, 1910–1930 is gratefully acknowledged for its generosity, with special thanks to Oded Halahmy Foundation for the Arts, Inc., Natasha and François-Xavier de Mallmann, Judy and Leonard Lauder, and Peter Bentley Brandt.

Support is also generously provided by The Kate Cassidy Foundation.

Additional funding is provided by the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum’s Collections Council and Curators Circle.