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Juan Gris Fruit dish and bottle mk112
1916
Oil on canvas
65x80cm
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Juan Gris Fruit dish on the blanket in blue color mk112
1916
Oil on canvas
50x61cm
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Juan Gris Daily mk112
1915
42.5x28.5cm
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Juan Gris Winebottle Daily and fruit dish mk112
1915
72.5x50cm
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Juan Gris The Still life having the fruit dish and newspaper mk112
1916
55x47cm
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Juan Gris Fruit dish book and newspaper mk112
1916
Oil on canvas
33x46cm
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Juan Gris The still life of rose mk112
1914
Oil on canvas
55x46cm
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Juan Gris The still lief having cut and tobacco mk112
1916
Oil on canvas
46x38cm
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Juan Gris Newpaper and Fruit dish mk112
1916
Oil on canvas
46x47.8cm
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Juan Gris Girl mk112
1916
92x60cm
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Juan Gris Water bottle and cup mk112
1916
Oil on canvas
46x38cm
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Juan Gris Fiddle mk112
1916-1917
41x24cm
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Juan Gris The still life having newspaper mk112
1916
Oil on canvas
73x60cm
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Juan Gris Portrait mk112
1916
Oil on canvas
116x73cm
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Juan Gris Still life mk112
1917
Oil on canvas
73.5x91.5cm
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Juan Gris Still life mk112
1917
Oil on canvas
81x65.5cm
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Juan Gris The still life on the chair mk112
1917
Oil on canvas
100x73cm
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Juan Gris Still life fiddle and newspaper mk112
1917
Oil on canvas
93x60cm
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Juan Gris The fem portrait of the whole body mk112
1917
116x73cm
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Juan Gris Fruit bowl and bottle mk112
1917
61x37cm
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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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