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    Juan Gris was a Spanish painter and sculptor who lived in Paris from 1906 until his death in 1927. He was a pioneer of Cubism and created some of the movement's most distinctive works. Gris began painting seriously in 1910 and developed a personal Cubist style by 1912. Unlike Picasso and Braque, Gris painted with bright colors. He is known for works such as The Sunblind (1914) and Guitar and Pipe (1913).

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    Juan Gris was a Spanish painter and sculptor who lived in Paris from 1906 until his death in 1927. He was a pioneer of Cubism and created some of the movement's most distinctive works. Gris began painting seriously in 1910 and developed a personal Cubist style by 1912. Unlike Picasso and Braque, Gris painted with bright colors. He is known for works such as The Sunblind (1914) and Guitar and Pipe (1913).

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    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.")

    Juan Gris

    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

    Juan Gris

    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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