LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil on canvas

Measurements:

28.74 in. (73.00 cm.) (height) by 36.02 in. (91.50 cm.) (width)

Markings:

signed and dated 'Juan Gris 3-15' (on the reverse)

Exhibited:

Zurich, Kunsthaus, Juan Gris, April 1913, no. 51 (titled Le Moulin à Café).New York, Buchholz Gallery, Juan Gris, January-February 1950, no. 7 (illustrated).Northampton, Smith College Museum of Art, Works of Art Belonging to Alumnae, May-June 1950, no. 48.New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Summer Loan Show, July-August 1950.New York, The Museum of Modern Art, New York Private Collections, June-September 1951.Fort Worth Art Center, Inaugural Exhibition, October 1954, no. 38 (illustrated).New York, The Museum of Modern Art, Paintings from Private Collections, May-September 1955.Bern, Berner Kunstmuseum, Juan Gris, October 1955-January 1956, no. 24 (illustrated).New York, Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, Festival of Art, October-November 1957, no. 71.New York, The Museum of Modern Art; The Minneapolis Institute of Arts; San Francisco Museum of Arts and Los Angeles County Museum, Juan Gris, April-October 1958, p. 49 (illustrated in color).New York, M. Knoedler & Co., Inc., The Colin Collection: Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings and Sculpture, April-May 1960, no. 59 (illustrated; illustrated again in color, pl. 59).New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Summer Loan Exhibition, July-September 1962.Richmond, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Collector of the Year, February-March 1970.Paris, Orangerie des Tuileries, Juan Gris, March-July 1974, no. 40. Baden-Baden, Staatliche Kunsthalle, Juan Gris, July-September 1974, no. 32 (illustrated in color).Washington, D.C., The National Gallery; Berkeley, University Art Museum, University of California and New York, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Juan Gris, October 1983-July 1984, p. 178, no. 31 (illustrated in color, p. 64).London, Whitechapel Art Gallery and Stuttgart, Staatsgalerie, Juan Gris, September 1992-February 1993, p. 206, no. 49 (illustrated in color).Madrid, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Juan Gris: Paintings and Drawings 1910-1927, June-September 2005, vol. I, no. 52 (illustrated in color).

Literature:

D. Cooper, Juan Gris ou Le Goût Solennel, Geneva, 1949 (illustrated in color, pl. 7). Art News, February 1950, p. 19 (illustrated in color). H. McBride, "Rockefeller, Whitney, Senior, Odets, Colin," in Art News, Summer 1951, p. 36. J. Golding, "Juan Gris at Berne," in The Burlington Magazine, December 1955, p. 384. The New York Times Book Review, 2 December 1956, p. 3 (illustrated). J. Golding, Cubism: A History and an Analysis 1907-1914, New York, 1959, p. 134 (illustrated, pl. 50A). D. Cooper, Juan Gris: Catalogue raisonné de l'oeuvre peint, Paris, 1977, vol. I, p. 196, no. 128 (illustrated, p. 197). D. Kosinski, "G.F. Reber: Collector of Cubism," in The Burlington Magazine, August 1991, vol. CXXXIII, no. 1061, p. 529. P. Kropmanns and U. Fleckner, Von kontinentaler Bedeutung. Gottlieb Friedrich Reber und seine Sammlungen, in: Die Moderne und ihre Sammler. Franzsische Kunst in deutschem Privatbesitz vom Kaiserreich zur Weimarer Republik, Berlin, 2001, p. 395.

Provenance:

Léonce Rosenberg, Paris. Dr. Gottlieb F. Reber, Lausanne (acquired from the above). Paul bey Adamidi Frasheri, Geneva (acquired from the above).Galerie Georges Moos, Geneva. Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Colin, New York (acquired from the above, 30 April 1949). E.V. Thaw, New York and Acquavella Contemporary Galleries, New York (acquired from the above). Acquired from the above by the present owner.