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Juan Gris
José Victoriano (Carmelo Carlos) González-Pérez (23 March 1887 – 11 May 1927) Spanish painter whose lucidly composed still lifes are major works of the style called Synthetic Cubism, his works are among the movement’s most distinctive.
Gris was born in Madrid and later studied engineering at the Madrid School of Arts and Sciences. There, from 1902 to 1904, he contributed drawings to local periodicals. From 1904 to 1905, he studied painting with the academic artist José Moreno Carbonero. It was in 1905 that José Victoriano González adopted the more distinctive name Juan Gris
In 1906 he moved to Paris and became friends with Henri Matisse, Georges Braque, Fernand Leger, and in 1915 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.”)
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 colle. 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.
Gris’s works from late 1916 through 1917 exhibit a greater simplification of geometric structure, a blurring of the distinction between objects and setting, between subject matter and background. The oblique overlapping planar constructions, tending away from equilibrium, can best be seen in Woman with Mandolin, after Corot (September 1916) and in its epilogue, Portrait of Josette Gris (October 1916; Museo Reina Sofia). The geometric structure of Juan Gris’s Crystal period is already palpable in Still Life before an Open Window, Place Ravignan (June 1915; Philadelphia Museum of Art). The overlapping elemental planar structure of the composition serves as a foundation to flatten the individual elements onto a unifying surface, foretelling the shape of things to come.
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 possibilites 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 Dusseldorf 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.
The top auction price for a Gris work was $20.8 million which was set by his 1915 still life titled, Livre, pipe et verres, until Christie’s Imp/Mod sale in November 2010, when “Violon et guitare” sold for $28.6 million
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Nature morte à la nappe à carreaux 1915
By Juan GrisSizes starting at $289.00The Musician’s Table 1914
By Juan GrisSizes starting at $299.00Violon et guitare 1913
By Juan GrisSizes starting at $289.00Livre, pipe et verres 1915
By Juan GrisSizes starting at $299.00Tabac, Journal et Bouteille de Vin Rosé 1914
By Juan GrisSizes starting at $339.00Le livre
By Juan GrisSizes starting at $279.00Guitare sur une table 1916
By Juan GrisSizes starting at $319.00Guitare 1913
By Juan GrisSizes starting at $279.00Le pot de geranium 1915
By Juan GrisSizes starting at $299.00La Console de Marbre 1914
By Juan GrisSizes starting at $279.00Verre et Carte À Jouer 1915
By Juan GrisSizes starting at $309.00Paysage et Maisons À Céret 1913
By Juan GrisSizes starting at $319.00Bouteille de Beaune et Compotier 1917
By Juan GrisSizes starting at $329.00Violon et journal 1917
By Juan GrisSizes starting at $319.00La lampe 1914
By Juan GrisSizes starting at $279.00Le Violon 1913
By Juan GrisSizes starting at $289.00Le tapis vert 1925
By Juan GrisSizes starting at $299.00Le Tapis bleu 1925
By Juan GrisSizes starting at $279.00Guitare et Compotier 1919
By Juan GrisSizes starting at $289.00La table devant le bâtiment 1919
By Juan GrisSizes starting at $299.00Journal et Compotier 1917
By Juan GrisSizes starting at $289.00Tasse et pipe 1914
By Juan GrisSizes starting at $309.00Chessboard, Glass, and Dish 1917
By Juan GrisSizes starting at $319.00Compotier et Fruits Sur Un Guéridon 1917
By Juan GrisSizes starting at $279.00Le guéridon 1922
By Juan GrisSizes starting at $279.00Moulin à café et bouteille 1917
By Juan GrisSizes starting at $329.00Bottle of Rum and Newspaper
By Juan GrisSizes starting at $279.00Abstraction (Guitar and Glass) 1913
By Juan GrisSizes starting at $309.00Guitar and Pipe 1913
By Juan GrisSizes starting at $289.00Portrait of Pablo Picasso 1912
By Juan GrisSizes starting at $279.00Man in a Café 1912
By Juan GrisSizes starting at $309.00Nature morte au livre 1913
By Juan GrisSizes starting at $319.00Still Life before an Open Window, Place Ravignan 1915
By Juan GrisSizes starting at $289.00Newspaper and Fruit Dish 1916
By Juan GrisSizes starting at $319.00Playing Cards and Glass of Beer , 1913
By Juan GrisSizes starting at $309.00Seated Woman 1917
By Juan GrisSizes starting at $319.00A Bottle and Fruit 1923
By Juan GrisSizes starting at $299.00A Dish of Grapes and a Pipe on a Table 1918
By Juan GrisSizes starting at $289.00Abstraction 1915
By Juan GrisSizes starting at $309.00Ace of Clubs and Four of Diamonds, 1915
By Juan GrisSizes starting at $369.00Breakfast (Le Petit déjeuner) 1914
By Juan GrisSizes starting at $299.00Carafe, Cups and Glasses 1913
By Juan GrisSizes starting at $299.00Carafe, verre et journal 1919
By Juan GrisSizes starting at $279.00Cherries (Les cerises) 1915
By Juan GrisSizes starting at $309.00Coffee Grinder and Glass 1915
By Juan GrisSizes starting at $289.00Cubist Landscape 1917
By Juan GrisSizes starting at $329.00Checkerboard and Playing Cards 1915
By Juan GrisSizes starting at $309.00Checkerboard and playing cards 1915
By Juan GrisSizes starting at $309.00Cubist still life 1915
By Juan GrisSizes starting at $289.00Still life with a Bordeaux bottle 1919
By Juan GrisSizes starting at $279.00Still Life with a Guitar 1913
By Juan GrisSizes starting at $319.00Le Canigou, 1921
By Juan GrisSizes starting at $319.00Fruit Dish on a Checkered Tablecloth 1917
By Juan GrisSizes starting at $319.00La Grappe de Raisin 1917
By Juan GrisSizes starting at $329.00Lamp 1916
By Juan GrisSizes starting at $279.00Glass and Ace of Clubs 1917
By Juan GrisSizes starting at $319.00Glass and bottle 1922
By Juan GrisSizes starting at $339.00Grapes 1913
By Juan GrisSizes starting at $319.00Harlequin with a Guitar 1917
By Juan GrisSizes starting at $319.00Houses at Beaulieu 1918
By Juan GrisSizes starting at $309.00Le guéridon 1914
By Juan GrisSizes starting at $299.00Le papier à musique
By Juan GrisSizes starting at $309.00Les Raisins, 1916
By Juan GrisSizes starting at $279.00Still Life with a Poem 1915
By Juan GrisSizes starting at $279.00Still Life with Bottle and Glass
By Juan GrisSizes starting at $279.00The Breakfast 1915
By Juan GrisSizes starting at $279.00The Checkerboard 1915
By Juan GrisSizes starting at $279.00The Smoker (Frank Haviland) 1913
By Juan GrisSizes starting at $299.00The Bottle of Anís del Mono 1914
By Juan GrisSizes starting at $339.00The Bottle of Wine 1914
By Juan GrisSizes starting at $339.00Verre et Fruits 1920
By Juan GrisSizes starting at $299.00Verre et journal 1916
By Juan GrisSizes starting at $289.00Verre, Tasse, et Journal 1913
By Juan GrisSizes starting at $339.00Violin 1913
By Juan GrisSizes starting at $319.00Violin and Checkerboard
By Juan GrisSizes starting at $309.00Violin and Glass 1915
By Juan GrisSizes starting at $319.00Violin and Playing Cards on a Table 1913
By Juan GrisSizes starting at $319.00La Lampe 1916
By Juan GrisSizes starting at $279.00Newspaper and Fruit Dish 1916
By Juan GrisSizes starting at $279.00Detail of Chessboard, Glass, and Dish 1917
By Juan GrisSizes starting at $289.00Fantômas 1915
By Juan GrisSizes starting at $289.00Guitar on a table 1915
By Juan GrisSizes starting at $299.00Still Life with Guitar 1920
By Juan GrisSizes starting at $289.00The Bordeaux bottle 1915
By Juan GrisSizes starting at $279.00Frutero y periódico 1920
By Juan GrisSizes starting at $279.00Glass and Checkerboard 1917
By Juan GrisSizes starting at $299.00Violon et verre 1913
By Juan GrisSizes starting at $329.00A Guitar, Glasses and a Bottle 1913
By Juan GrisSizes starting at $299.00Bottle and Fruit Dish 1919
By Juan GrisSizes starting at $299.00Bottle, glass and newspaper 1918
By Juan GrisSizes starting at $319.00Carafe and Book 1920
By Juan GrisSizes starting at $309.00Coffee Grinder, Cup and Glass on a Table 1915
By Juan GrisSizes starting at $279.00Coffeepot 1916
By Juan GrisSizes starting at $279.00Glass and Playing Cards 1915
By Juan GrisSizes starting at $309.00Grapes 1916
By Juan GrisSizes starting at $279.00Guitar and Glasses 1914
By Juan GrisSizes starting at $309.00La Guitare 1913
By Juan GrisSizes starting at $279.00Landscape near Beaulieu 1918
By Juan GrisSizes starting at $299.00Le Broc 1920
By Juan GrisSizes starting at $299.00Le livre 1913
By Juan GrisSizes starting at $279.00