1887–1927 · Cubism. Wikipedia
José Victoriano González-Pérez , better known as Juan Gris, was a Spanish painter born in Madrid who lived and worked in France for most of his active period. Closely connected to the innovative artistic genre Cubism, his works are among the movement's most distinctive.
Violin and Playing Cards on a Table is an oil on canvas painting by Spanish cubist Juan Gris, from 1913. The work is a still life, a typical motif for the cubists. It is in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, in New York.
The Anisette Bottle is a 1914 painting by Juan Gris, now in the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía in Madrid. It shows a bottle of anisette, specifically the Spanish brand Anís del Mono, with the names of Badalona, Madrid and Paris, all linked with the leaders of the Cubist movement, namely Gris himself, Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque.
The Bekfast (Le Petit Déjeuner) is a painting by Juan Gris, painted in October 1915. It is in the collection of the Musée National d'Art Moderne, in Paris, purchased in 1947. This cubist canvas is executed in oil and charcoal. It is a still life depicting a coffee grinder, a coffee pot and a fruit bowl .
Still Life with a Guitar is an oil on canvas painting by Spanish cubist Juan Gris, from 1913. The work is in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, in New York, Gallery 905. The work was created in the small French town of Céret in the Pyrenees. Céret was popular with artists, including Picasso, who paid a visit there in the same year.
Still Life with Checked Tablecloth (originally titled Le compotier) is an early 20th century painting by Spanish Cubist artist Juan Gris. Done in oil and graphite on canvas, the painting depicts a table set with grapes, a bottle of red wine, beer, a newspaper and guitar. In addition, the composite image formed from these various objects can be seen as Gris' take on a bull's head. The work is in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Formerly in the collection of Léonce Rosenberg, Paris (no. 5114), the work was reproduced in Bulletin de "L'Effort Moderne" no. 16, in June 1925, titled Le compotier. The painting later formed part of the collection of Gottlieb Reber. It was reproduced in the French literary journal Cahiers d'art, Paris, in 1927, no. 4-5 (p. 172) titled Le compotier. Subsequently, the work was published in Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler's, Juan Gris, His Life and Work, London, 1947 (illustrated pl. 21), and is reproduced on page 195D of the Douglas Cooper, Juan Gris, Catalogue raisonné de l’oeuvre peint, vol. I, Paris, 1977, no. 127, p. 194. The works was first exhibited at the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, Internationale Kunst Ausstellung, June – September 1926, no. 374.
Harlequin with a Guitar is an oil on canvas painting by Spanish cubist Juan Gris, from 1917. The work is in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, in New York. The harlequin with his checkered costume was a favorite theme of cubists and Gris portrayed him in approximately forty works between 1917 and 1925.
Juan Legua is an oil-on-canvas painting by Spanish cubist Juan Gris, created in 1911. It depicts a male sitter smoking a pipe and is one of Gris' earliest works in the cubist style. The work is in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, in New York.
Still Life with a Poem is an oil painting by Spanish artist Juan Gris, completed in 1915. It is held at the Norton Simon Museum, in Pasadena. Still life paintings depict real objects but not always from a specific viewpoint, as multiple viewpoints of a subject can be depicted. The idea of space is rearranged in Still Life with a Poem, which is painted entirely of oils and imitates a collage on a wood grain table. A poem by Pierre Reverdy is contained at the bottom of the oil painting, which seems to be creating a comparison between two separate paintings. This was Gris's first truly collaborative piece. Previously, he had worked with Reverdy to create a collaborative work but was abandoned because of the difficulty of printing during the war.
Les Mots croisés, par Juan Gris
Verre et Journal
Pears and Grapes on a Table, Juan Gris
Syphon, verre et journal - Juan Gris - Museum Ludwig