Eiffel Tower (Delaunay series) stylistically between the artist's "Saint-Séverin" series and "Windows" series. Delaunay's Eiffel Tower series is evoked in architectural paintings of other iconic buildings by his contemporary, the New York artist John Marin, in his "Woolworth Building, No. 31" of 1912, and later by the Ontario artist Greg Curnoe's "CN Tower" series of the 1970s and 1980s. The 1913 artist's book "La prose du Transsibérien et de la Petite Jehanne de France", a collaborative work between Sonia Delaunay and the poet Blaise Cendrars, forms an epic narrative of a Trans-Siberian Railway journey that concludes in Paris at a Simultanist Eiffel Tower. They
Eiffel Tower selection of Eiffel's design a foregone conclusion, as entries had to include a study for a four-sided metal tower on the Champ de Mars. (A 300-meter tower was then considered a herculean engineering effort). On 12 May, a commission was set up to examine Eiffel's scheme and its rivals, which, a month later, decided that all the proposals except Eiffel's were either impractical or lacking in details. After some debate about the exact location of the tower, a contract was signed on 8 January 1887. This was signed by Eiffel acting in his own capacity rather than as the representative