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Juan Gris Portrait of Pablo Picasso 1912
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Juan Gris Portrait of Josette 1916
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Juan Gris The Teacups (mk09) 1914
Papier colle,Oil and charcoal on canvas,65 x 92 cm
Dusseldorf,Funstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen
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Juan Gris Dejeuner (mk09) 1915
Oil on charcoal on canvas,92 x 73 cm
Paris,Musee National d'Art Moderne,Centre Georges Pompidou
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Juan Gris Glasses Newspaper and a Bottle of Wine (nn03) 1913
Collage Gouache Watercolour Coloured Chalks and Charcoal on paper 45 x 29.5 cm 17 3/4 x 11 7/8 in Private collection
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Juan Gris The Teacups mk87
1914
Papier colle,oil and charcoal on canvas
65x92cm
Dusseldorf,Kunstsammlung Nordrhein Westfalen
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Juan Gris Le Dejeuner mk87
1915
Oil and charcoal on canvas
92x73cm
Paris,Musee National d'Art Moderne
Centre Georges Pompidou
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Juan Gris The still lief having guitar mk112
1912-1913
42x31cm
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Juan Gris The head of man mk112
1912-1913
Oil on canvas
37.6x50.4cm
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Juan Gris Winebottle and kettle of tile mk112
1911
Oil on canvas
55x33cm
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Juan Gris Beer and playing card mk112
1913
Oil on canvas
24x19cm
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Juan Gris The still life having bottle mk112
1914
46x38cm
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Juan Gris Window blind mk112
1915
Oil on canvas
61x46cm
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Juan Gris Landscape mk112
1916
Oil on canvas
55x38cm
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Juan Gris The still lief having book mk112
1911
Oil on canvas
55x46cm
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Juan Gris Siphon and winebottle mk112
1910
Oil on canvas
57x48cm
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Juan Gris The Still life having egg and bottle mk112
1911
57.5x38cm
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Juan Gris Portrait mk112
1911
Oil on canvas
53x46cm
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Juan Gris The house in Paris mk112
1911
Oil on canvas
40x35cm
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Juan Gris Tile Bottle and cup mk112
1911
Oil on canvas
59.7x50.2cm
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Juan Gris
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1887-1927
Born in Madrid, he studied mechanical drawing at the Escuela de Artes y Manufacturas in Madrid from 1902 to 1904, during which time he contributed drawings to local periodicals. From 1904 to 1905 he studied painting with the academic artist Jose Maria Carbonero.
In 1906 he moved to Paris and became friends with Henri Matisse, Georges Braque, Fernand Leger, and in 1915 he was painted by his friend, Amedeo Modigliani. In Paris, Gris followed the lead of another friend and fellow countryman, Pablo Picasso. His portrait of Picasso in 1912 is a significant early Cubist painting done by a painter other than Picasso or Georges Braque. (Although he regarded Picasso as a teacher, Gertrude Stein acknowledged that Gris "was the one person that Picasso would have willingly wiped off the map.")
Portrait of Picasso, 1912, The Art Institute of Chicago.Although he submitted darkly humorous illustrations to journals such as Le Rire, L'assiette au beurre, Le Charivari, and Le Cri de Paris, Gris began to paint seriously in 1910. By 1912 he had developed a personal Cubist style.
At first Gris painted in the analytic style of Cubism, but after 1913 he began his conversion to synthetic Cubism, of which he became a steadfast interpreter, with extensive use of papier coll??. Unlike Picasso and Braque, whose Cubist works were monochromatic, Gris painted with bright harmonious colors in daring, novel combinations in the manner of his friend Matisse.
In 1924, he first designed ballet sets and costumes for Sergei Diaghilev and the famous Ballets Russes.
Gris articulated most of his aesthetic theories during 1924 and 1925. He delivered his definitive lecture, Des possibilit??s de la peinture, at the Sorbonne in 1924. Major Gris exhibitions took place at the Galerie Simon in Paris and the Galerie Flechtheim in Berlin in 1923, and at the Galerie Flechtheim in D??sseldorf in 1925.
He died in Boulogne-sur-Seine (Paris) in the spring of 1927 at the age of forty, leaving a wife, Josette, and a son, Georges.
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