Juan Gris Portrait of Pablo Picasso Painting ID:: 1841 Juan Gris1.jpg
Portrait of Pablo Picasso 1912
Juan Gris The Teacups (mk09) Painting ID:: 21645 new6/Juan Gris-235368.jpg
The Teacups (mk09) 1914
Papier colle,Oil and charcoal on canvas,65 x 92 cm
Dusseldorf,Funstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen
Juan Gris Dejeuner (mk09) Painting ID:: 21646 new6/Juan Gris-285226.jpg
Dejeuner (mk09) 1915
Oil on charcoal on canvas,92 x 73 cm
Paris,Musee National d'Art Moderne,Centre Georges Pompidou
Juan Gris Glasses Newspaper and a Bottle of Wine (nn03) Painting ID:: 23309 new8/Juan Gris-399322.jpg
Glasses Newspaper and a Bottle of Wine (nn03) 1913
Collage Gouache Watercolour Coloured Chalks and Charcoal on paper 45 x 29.5 cm 17 3/4 x 11 7/8 in Private collection
Juan Gris The Teacups Painting ID:: 34053 new9/Juan Gris-693294.jpg
The Teacups mk87
1914
Papier colle,oil and charcoal on canvas
65x92cm
Dusseldorf,Kunstsammlung Nordrhein Westfalen
Juan Gris Le Dejeuner Painting ID:: 34054 new9/Juan Gris-739475.jpg
Le Dejeuner mk87
1915
Oil and charcoal on canvas
92x73cm
Paris,Musee National d'Art Moderne
Centre Georges Pompidou
Juan Gris The still lief having guitar Painting ID:: 36489 new10/Juan Gris-244652.jpg
The still lief having guitar mk112
1912-1913
42x31cm
Juan Gris The head of man Painting ID:: 36490 new10/Andre Derain-384624.jpg
The head of man mk112
1912-1913
Oil on canvas
37.6x50.4cm
Juan Gris Winebottle and kettle of tile Painting ID:: 36491 new10/Andre Derain-446445.jpg
Winebottle and kettle of tile mk112
1911
Oil on canvas
55x33cm
Juan Gris Beer and playing card Painting ID:: 36492 new10/Andre Derain-284247.jpg
Beer and playing card mk112
1913
Oil on canvas
24x19cm
Juan Gris The still life having bottle Painting ID:: 36493 new10/Andre Derain-865392.jpg
The still life having bottle mk112
1914
46x38cm
Juan Gris Window blind Painting ID:: 36494 new10/Juan Gris-373322.jpg
Window blind mk112
1915
Oil on canvas
61x46cm
Juan Gris Landscape Painting ID:: 36495 new10/Juan Gris-659232.jpg
Landscape mk112
1916
Oil on canvas
55x38cm
Juan Gris The still lief having book Painting ID:: 36496 new10/Juan Gris-549299.jpg
The still lief having book mk112
1911
Oil on canvas
55x46cm
Juan Gris Siphon and winebottle Painting ID:: 36497 new10/Juan Gris-223996.jpg
Siphon and winebottle mk112
1910
Oil on canvas
57x48cm
Juan Gris The Still life having egg and bottle Painting ID:: 36498 new10/Juan Gris-377893.jpg
The Still life having egg and bottle mk112
1911
57.5x38cm
Juan Gris Portrait Painting ID:: 36499 new10/Juan Gris-826683.jpg
Portrait mk112
1911
Oil on canvas
53x46cm
Juan Gris The house in Paris Painting ID:: 36500 new10/Juan Gris-335346.jpg
The house in Paris mk112
1911
Oil on canvas
40x35cm
Juan Gris Tile Bottle and cup Painting ID:: 36501 new10/Juan Gris-484627.jpg
Tile Bottle and cup mk112
1911
Oil on canvas
59.7x50.2cm
Juan Gris Banjor and cup Painting ID:: 36502 new10/Juan Gris-865757.jpg
Banjor and cup mk112
1912
Oil on canvas
30x58cm
Juan Gris Still life botrtle and knife Painting ID:: 36503 new10/Juan Gris-984688.jpg
Still life botrtle and knife mk112
1912
Oil on canvas
54.5x46cm
Juan Gris Bottle and water bottle Painting ID:: 36504 new10/Juan Gris-665846.jpg
Bottle and water bottle mk112
1912
Oil on canvas
35x27.5cm
Juan Gris Watch and Bottle Painting ID:: 36505 new10/Juan Gris-564645.jpg
Watch and Bottle mk112
Oil on canvas
65x92cm
Juan Gris The man at the coffee room Painting ID:: 36506 new10/Juan Gris-476285.jpg
The man at the coffee room mk112
1912
Oil on canvas
122x88cm
Juan Gris Still life oil lamp Painting ID:: 36507 new10/Juan Gris-873456.jpg
Still life oil lamp mk112
1912
Oil on canvas
48x33cm
Juan Gris Washbowl Painting ID:: 36508 new10/Juan Gris-537422.jpg
Washbowl mk112
1912
130x89cm
Juan Gris Three Playing card Painting ID:: 36509 new10/Juan Gris-838845.jpg
Three Playing card mk112
1913
Oil on canvas
35x46cm
Juan Gris Fiddle and cup Painting ID:: 36510 new10/Juan Gris-797975.jpg
Fiddle and cup mk112
1913
Oil on canvas
81x60cm
Juan Gris Book Painting ID:: 36511 new10/Juan Gris-942255.jpg
1887-1927
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 Jose Maria Carbonero.
In 1906 he moved to Paris and became friends with Henri Matisse, Georges Braque, Fernand Leger, 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. 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.")
Portrait of Picasso, 1912, The Art Institute of Chicago.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 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 possibilit??s 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 D??sseldorf 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.