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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 1918
By Juan GrisSizes starting at $299.00Nature morte sur une chaise
By Juan GrisSizes starting at $279.00Still Life 1916
By Juan GrisSizes starting at $329.00Still life with a fruit bowl and mandolin 1919
By Juan GrisSizes starting at $279.00Still Life with a Glass 1917
By Juan GrisSizes starting at $339.00Still Life with Newspaper 1916
By Juan GrisSizes starting at $259.00The coffee grinder, 1916
By Juan GrisSizes starting at $279.00The Compote , 1920
By Juan GrisSizes starting at $259.00The fruit bowl 1914
By Juan GrisSizes starting at $279.00The Fruit Bowl
By Juan GrisSizes starting at $259.00The Sunblind 1914
By Juan GrisSizes starting at $259.00Violin and Guitar 1913
By Juan GrisSizes starting at $279.00Bottle of Rum and Newspaper 1914
By Juan GrisSizes starting at $249.00Dish of Fruit 1916
By Juan GrisSizes starting at $309.00Jar and Glass 1916
By Juan GrisSizes starting at $269.00Pipe and fruit-dish with grapes 1918
By Juan GrisSizes starting at $299.00Still life with lamp 1919
By Juan GrisSizes starting at $269.00Still Life with Violin and Music Sheet 1914
By Juan GrisSizes starting at $279.00The Guitar (La guitarra), 1918
By Juan GrisSizes starting at $279.00The Sideboard 1917
By Juan GrisSizes starting at $299.00The Table 1914
By Juan GrisSizes starting at $269.00Verre et damier 1914
By Juan GrisSizes starting at $259.00Verre et paquet de tabac 1914
By Juan GrisSizes starting at $259.00Water-bottle and lemon 1916
By Juan GrisSizes starting at $279.00Juan Legua 1911
By Juan GrisSizes starting at $249.00Portrait Maurice Raynal 1912
By Juan GrisSizes starting at $249.00Portrait of Josette Gris 1916
By Juan GrisSizes starting at $299.00Portrait of Josette 1916
By Juan GrisSizes starting at $249.00Portrait of Josette 1912
By Juan GrisSizes starting at $249.00Arlequin assis à la guitare 1919
By Juan GrisSizes starting at $269.00Pierrot à la guitare 1919
By Juan GrisSizes starting at $259.00Le Tourangeau 1918
By Juan GrisSizes starting at $299.00Pierrot 1919
By Juan GrisSizes starting at $259.00Pierrot 1921
By Juan GrisSizes starting at $299.00Arlequin et Pierrot 1924
By Juan GrisSizes starting at $289.00Le Pierrot au Rideau 1924
By Juan GrisSizes starting at $279.00Pierrot aux Mains Jointes 1924
By Juan GrisSizes starting at $269.00Pierrot with Book 1924
By Juan GrisSizes starting at $269.00Devant La Baignoire 1925
By Juan GrisSizes starting at $269.00Le Pierrot à la guitare 1925
By Juan GrisSizes starting at $289.00Femme au Livre 1925
By Juan GrisSizes starting at $279.00La liseuse 1926
By Juan GrisSizes starting at $259.00L’homme À La Pipe 1925
By Juan GrisSizes starting at $269.00Tête d’arlequin 1924
By Juan GrisSizes starting at $289.00Man with a Cigarette
By Juan GrisSizes starting at $259.00Woman with Mandolin 1916
By Juan GrisSizes starting at $289.00La femme au panier 1927
By Juan GrisSizes starting at $259.00Portrait d’homme 1923
By Juan GrisSizes starting at $299.00Compotier et journal 1925
By Juan GrisSizes starting at $249.00The Painter’s Window 1925
By Juan GrisSizes starting at $259.00Bol et Cuillère 1923
By Juan GrisSizes starting at $269.00Bol et Livre
By Juan GrisSizes starting at $269.00Bol et pipe
By Juan GrisSizes starting at $299.00Bowl and apple 1923
By Juan GrisSizes starting at $279.00Broc et carafe 1925
By Juan GrisSizes starting at $259.00Citron et raisin 1925
By Juan GrisSizes starting at $299.00Compotier et Livre 1925
By Juan GrisSizes starting at $259.00Fourchette et Cuillière 1923
By Juan GrisSizes starting at $299.00L’as de Carreau 1924
By Juan GrisSizes starting at $259.00L’as de Trèfle 1924
By Juan GrisSizes starting at $269.00La Tranche de Melon 1926
By Juan GrisSizes starting at $259.00Le bol 1924
By Juan GrisSizes starting at $299.00Le gobelet 1927
By Juan GrisSizes starting at $279.00Le Livre 1924
By Juan GrisSizes starting at $289.00Le Livre ouvert 1925
By Juan GrisSizes starting at $259.00Le Napperon Blanc
By Juan GrisSizes starting at $269.00Les figues 1924
By Juan GrisSizes starting at $269.00Violin before an Open Window 1926
By Juan GrisSizes starting at $269.00Compotier et carafe 1925
By Juan GrisSizes starting at $229.00Livre et Compotier 1925
By Juan GrisSizes starting at $259.00Raisins, carafe et livre 1922
By Juan GrisSizes starting at $259.00Pommes et citrons 1926
By Juan GrisSizes starting at $279.00Nature morte avec fruits 1923
By Juan GrisSizes starting at $269.00Les Pommes 1924
By Juan GrisSizes starting at $299.00Sur le guéridon 1924
By Juan GrisSizes starting at $299.00Violin and Fruit-Dish 1924
By Juan GrisSizes starting at $329.00Sous la lampe 1925
By Juan GrisSizes starting at $269.00Guitar in Front of the Sea 1925
By Juan GrisSizes starting at $269.00Guitar with inlays 1925
By Juan GrisSizes starting at $269.00Guitar and Newspaper 1925
By Juan GrisSizes starting at $279.00La lampe électrique 1925
By Juan GrisSizes starting at $279.00Knife 1926
By Juan GrisSizes starting at $289.00View across the Bay 1921
By Juan GrisSizes starting at $289.00Compotier et Pipe 1922
By Juan GrisSizes starting at $339.00La Mandoline Noire 1926
By Juan GrisSizes starting at $249.00The Pear 1919
By Juan GrisSizes starting at $279.00Grappe de raisin et poire 1920
By Juan GrisSizes starting at $269.00La Table du Peintre 1925
By Juan GrisSizes starting at $279.00Coffee Grinder 1920
By Juan GrisSizes starting at $279.00The White Tablecloth
By Juan GrisSizes starting at $259.00Water-Bottle, Bowl and Glass 1919
By Juan GrisSizes starting at $259.00Les Ciseaux 1926
By Juan GrisSizes starting at $259.00The Musician’s Table 1926
By Juan GrisSizes starting at $259.00Le Raisin Noir 1923
By Juan GrisSizes starting at $299.00The Open Window 1921
By Juan GrisSizes starting at $299.00Bottle and bowl of fruit 1920
By Juan GrisSizes starting at $289.00Bowl of Fruit 1924
By Juan GrisSizes starting at $279.00Pipe and Domino 1924
By Juan GrisSizes starting at $259.00Still Life with Guitar 1924
By Juan GrisSizes starting at $259.00Verre et bouteille
By Juan GrisSizes starting at $259.00