Salon d'Automne developments and innovations of 20th-century painting and sculpture. Fourteen years after the rejection of Georges Braque's "L'Estaque" paintings by the jury of the Salon d'Automne of 1908; Matisse, Rouault, Marquet, and Charles-François-Prosper Guérin, Braque was given the accolade of the "Salle d'Honneur" in 1922, without incident. In a dramatic case of "situational irony", a room at the Salon d'Automne was dedicated to Picasso in 1944. During the crucial years of Cubism, between 1909 and 1914, the dealer Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler forbade Braque and Picasso from exhibiting at both the Salon d'Automne and the Salon des Indépendants. He thought the salons were
20th-century Western painting for that spiritual knowledge. Other major pioneers of early abstraction include Swedish painter Hilma af Klint, Russian painter Kazimir Malevich, and Swiss painter Paul Klee. Robert Delaunay was a French artist who is associated with Orphism, (reminiscent of a link between pure abstraction and cubism). His later works were more abstract, reminiscent of Paul Klee. His key contributions to abstract painting refer to his bold use of color, and a clear love of experimentation of both depth and tone. At the invitation of Kandinsky, Delaunay and his wife the artist Sonia Delaunay, joined The Blue Rider (Der Blaue Reiter), a