Portrait of Tristan Tzara is an oil on paperboard painting by the French painter Robert Delaunay, created in 1923.
It depicts the Romanian poet Tristan Tzara, a leading name of the Dada movement and a personal friend of the artists couple Robert and Sonia Delaunay.
[1] During the First World War, Robert and Sonia Delaunay took refuge in Spain and Portugal, where they continued their artistic work on the observation of light and colors.
But the most faithful friend of the decade, the one who spent many evenings with the Delaunays, was Tristan Tzara, the founder and leader of the Dada movement.
The portrait is more realistic than orphic but still shows some elements from that movement, particularly in the treatment of the scarf and the face of Tzara.