Juan Gris

Juan Gris
Juan Gris

The Sunblind, 1914, Tate Gallery

Birth name Jos Victoriano Gonzlez-Prez
Born

March 23, 1887

Died

May 11, 1927 (aged40)

Nationality Spanish
Field

Painting, Sculpture

Movement

Cubism

Jos Victoriano Gonzlez-Prez (March 23, 1887 May 11, 1927), better known as Juan Gris, was a Spanish
painter and sculptor who lived and worked in France most of his life. His works are closely connected to the
emergence of an innovative artistic genreCubism, creating several of the movement's most distinctive works.[1]

Biography
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 Jos Maria Carbonero. It was probably in 1905 that Jos Gonzlez adopted the more distinctive
pseudonym Juan Gris.[2]
In 1906 he moved to Paris and became friends with Henri Matisse, Georges Braque, Fernand Lger, 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. 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, and by 1912 he had
developed a personal Cubist style. His portrait of Picasso in 1912 is a significant early Cubist painting done by a
painter other than Picasso or 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.")

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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 possibilits 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 Dsseldorf 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.

Portrait of Picasso, 1912, The Art Institute of

Chicago.

His top auction price was $20.8 million which was set by his 1915 still
life titled, Livre, pipe et verres,[1] until Christie's Imp/Mod sale in November 2010, when "Violon et guitare" sold for
$28.6 million.[3]

Selected works

Guitar and Pipe, 1913, Dallas

Museum of Art

Glass of Beer and Playing

Cards, 1913, Columbus
Museum of Art, Ohio.

Violin and Checkerboard,

1913, Stephen A. Simon
and Bonnie Simon
Collection.

The Bottle of Ans del

Mono, 1914, Queen
Sofia Museum, Madrid,
Spain

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Fantmas, 1915, National

Gallery of Art

Still Life with

Checked
Tablecloth, 1915,
Private collection.

Newspaper and
Fruit Dish,
1916, Yale
University Art
Gallery

The Guitar, 1918.

Still Life with

Fruit Dish and
Mandolin,
1919, Private
collection,
Paris.

Harlequin with
Guitar, 1919,
Galerie Louise
Leiris, Paris.

Le Canigou, 1921,
Albright-Knox Art Gallery

The Painter's
Window, 1925,
Baltimore
Museum of Art

Notes
[1] Marcus, J.S. " Juan Gris (http:/ / www. artinfo. com/ news/ story/ 31479/ juan-gris/ )." June 2009, Art+Auction.
[2] Gris 1998, p. 124.
[3] http:/ / www. christies. com. cn/ LotFinder/ lot_details. aspx?from=salesummary& intObjectID=5369376&
sid=16fa9ded-73c1-45de-83fa-f1bb394c8ea7

References
Gris, Juan. 1998. Juan Gris: peintures et dessins, 1887-1927. [Marseille]: Muses de Marseille. ISBN
2711829693. (French language)

External links

www.JuanGris.org (http://www.juangris.org) 181 works by Juan Gris

Paintings by Juan Gris (http://www.ricci-art.com/en/Juan-Gris.htm)
Artcyclopedia (http://www.artcyclopedia.com/artists/gris_juan.html) - Links to Gris' works
The Athenaeum (http://www.the-athenaeum.org/art/by_artist.php?id=364) - Extensive list and images of Gris'
works
Web Museum (http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/gris/) - Biography and images of Gris' works
OCR'd issues of Le Rire (http://www.lerire.com)
Juan Gris in Artfacts.Net (http://www.artfacts.net/index.php/pageType/artistInfo/artist/5680/lang/1) See
actual exhibitions and related galleries and museums for Juan Gris

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