Juan Gris portait of pablo picasso Painting ID:: 56466 new20/Juan Gris-582275.jpg
portait of pablo picasso mk247
1912,oil on canvas,66.25x29.125 in,93x74 cm,art lnstitute of chicago,chicago,il,usa
Juan Gris flaska och glas Painting ID:: 67535 new23/Juan Gris-987559.jpg
flaska och glas 1914
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Juan Gris skotskan Painting ID:: 67839 new23/Juan Gris-359676.jpg
skotskan 1918
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Juan Gris stilleben med tarning Painting ID:: 67840 new23/Juan Gris-478447.jpg
stilleben med tarning 1922
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Juan Gris albumet Painting ID:: 67841 new23/Juan Gris-993779.jpg
albumet 1926
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Juan Gris gitarren Painting ID:: 67842 new23/Juan Gris-549765.jpg
gitarren 1926
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Juan Gris frukost Painting ID:: 67976 new23/Juan Gris-356933.jpg
frukost 1914
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Juan Gris Playing Cards and Glass of Beer Painting ID:: 88608 new25/Juan Gris-676393.jpg
Playing Cards and Glass of Beer 1903(1903)
Medium oil and collage on canvas
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Juan Gris Still Life with Checked Tablecloth Painting ID:: 90161 new25/Juan Gris-684354.jpg
Still Life with Checked Tablecloth oil on canvas, by the Spanish painter Juan Gris. 116 in. x 35.04 in. Private collection. Image courtesy of The Athenaeum.
Date 1915(1915)
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Juan Gris The Painter's Window Painting ID:: 91556 new25/Juan Gris-838535.jpg
The Painter's Window oil on canvas
1925
Juan Gris Flasche und Obstschale Painting ID:: 97294 new26/Juan Gris-758687.jpg
Flasche und Obstschale 1920(1920)
Medium oil on canvas
Dimensions 48 x 62 cm
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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.