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Materials:

oil on canvas

Size Notes:

100 by 81cm., 39? by 32in.

Edition:

Painted in 1922.

Description:

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Markings:

signed Juan Gris and dated 1922 (lower right)

Condition:

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Literature:

'Feuilles Volantes', in Cahiers d'Art, 1927, no. 1, illustrated in a photograph of the 1927 Frankfurt exhibition p. 7 Georges Bataille, 'Juan Gris: Texte inédit' in Documents, Paris, 1930, no. 5, illustrated p. 267 Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler, Juan Gris. His Life and Work, London, 1947, no. 72, illustrated n.p. José Camón Aznar, Picasso y el cubismo, Madrid, 1965, illustrated p. 228 Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler, Juan Gris. His Life and Work, London, 1969, illustrated p. 298 Juan Antonio Gaya-Nuño, Juan Gris, Paris, 1974, no. 420, illustrated p. 221 Douglas Cooper, Juan Gris. Catalogue raisonné de l’œuvre peint, Paris, 1977, vol. II, no. 410, illustrated p. 233 Dorothy Kosinski, 'G.F. Reber: Collector of Cubism', in The Burlington Magazine, August 1991, vol. 133, no. 1061, listed p. 530 Andrea Pophanken & Felix Billeter (eds.), Die Moderne und ihre Sammler: Französische Kunst in deutschem Privatbesitz vom Kaiserreich zur Weimarer Republik, Berlin, 2001, mentioned p. 397 Paz García Ponce de León, Juan Gris. La pasión por el Cubismo, Madrid, 2008, illustrated in colour p. 369 Douglas Cooper, Juan Gris. Catalogue raisonné de l’œuvre peint, San Francisco, 2014, vol. II, no. 410, illustrated in colour p. 654

Provenance:

Galerie Simon (Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler), Paris Dr Gottlieb Friedrich Reber, Lausanne (acquired from the above by 1925 and until at least 1939) Fine Arts Associates (Otto M. Gerson), New York (acquired from the above) Galerie Würthle, Vienna (acquired by 1964) Private Collection, Switzerland (acquired by 1972) Thence by descent to the present owner