JUAN GRIS (Madrid 1887 - Boulogne-Billancourt 1927)
COMPOTIER ET VERRE, 1916
Oil on panel
Unsigned
61 x 38 cm
Provenance
Former collection Léonce Rosenberg , Galerie de l'Effort Moderne - sale after death on 14/02/1953, reproduced in the catalogue plate XX and designated under the n°166. Purchaser Gallery
Georges Giroux, Brussels for the sum of 75000 Francs
Former collection Bragard Verviers, Belgium
Former collection Galerie Louise Leiris, Paris, (inventory number 16897)
Bibliography
Douglas Cooper, catalogue raisonné de l'OEuvre peint avec la collaboration de Margaret Potter
Berggruen éditeur Paris, 1977, reproduced Volume I, Page 286, n°192.
Exhibitions
Le Cubisme à Prague, Château de Biron, Dordogne, 6 July-15 September 1991
Musée des Beaux-Arts de Nancy, 25 September-1 December 1991, n°91 reproduced
Musée Cantini, Marseille, Juan Gris, Peintures et dessins 1887 -1927, 17 September 1998- 3 January 1999, catalogue n°36, Page 88 reproduced.
Galerie Berès Au Temps des Cubistes, 1910-1920, Paris 20 October 2006-27 January 2007, n°78, page 222, reproduced in colour and on the cover of the catalogue.
Juan Gris (1887-1927) is a Spanish painter who spent his entire career in France following the example of his friend and rival Picasso. He is undoubtedly one of the major figures of Cubism.
Arrived in Paris in 1906, he befriended Matisse, Braque, Léger... Modigliani painted his portrait, now kept in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. A prolific draftsman, he published illustrations in many newspapers and collaborated with Serge Diaghilev and his Russian ballets for which he designed sets and costumes. The synthetic cubist style that he developed in the lineage of Braque and Picasso is of a very personal style that will attract a certain jealousy from the latter. More harmonious in its forms, developing a palette of colours in monochrome, as shown in his portraits of Picasso or his wife Josette, Juan Gris's style is borro
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