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 the autumn of 1884 under the company name. On 30 March 1885, Eiffel presented his plans to the ; after discussing the technical problems and emphasising the practical uses of the tower, he finished his talk by saying the tower would symbolise, Little progress was made until 1886, when Jules Grévy was re-elected as president of France and Édouard Lockroy was appointed as minister for trade. A budget for the exposition was passed and, on 1 May, Lockroy announced an alteration to the terms of the open competition being held for a centrepiece to the exposition, which effectively made the