LOT DETAILS

Materials:

papier collé, oil and graphite on canvas

Measurements:

18.19 in. (46.20 cm.) (height) by 10.79 in. (27.40 cm.) (width)

Description:

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Markings:

Signed Juan Gris on the reverse

Exhibited:

New York, Buchholz Gallery, Juan Gris, 1950, no. 3 Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Four Spaniards, 1953, no. 33, illustrated in the catalogue Dortmund, Museum am Ostwall & Cologne, Wallraf-Richartz Museum, Juan Gris, 1965-66, no. 20, illustrated in the catalogue Bordeaux, Galerie des Beaux Arts & Paris, Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Les Cubistes, 1973, no. 87, illustrated in the catalogue London, Whitechapel Art Gallery, Stuttgart, Staatsgalerie & Otterlo, Rijksmuseum Kroller-Muller, Juan Gris, 1992-93, no. 45, illustrated in the catalogue Marseille, Musée Catini, Juan Gris, Peintures et dessins, 1887-1927, 1998-99, no. 30, illustrated in the catalogue Saint-Tropez, Musée de Saint-Tropez, Les Chemins du Cubisme, 1999, illustrated in color in the catalogue London, Tate Modern, Century City, Art and Culpture in the Modern Metropolis, 2001, illustrated in color in the catalogue Ferrara, Palazzo dei Diamanti, Il Cubismo, 2004-05, illustrated in color in the catalogue Madrid, Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Juan Gris: Paintings and drawings, 1910-1927, 2005, no. 45, illustrated in color in the catalogue

Literature:

Paul Erich Küppers, Der Kubismus, Leipzig, 1920, illustrated pl. 19 Rudolf Blümner, "Kubismus," Jahrbuch der Jungen Kunst, Leipzig, 1923, illustrated p. 336 P.G. Bruguiere, "La Presence de Juan Gris," in Cahiers d'art, Paris, 1951, illustrated p. 120 José Camon Aznar, Picasso y el Cubismo, Madrid, 1956, fig. 32, illustrated p. 67 Paul Waldo Schwartz, The Cubists, London & New York, 1971, illustrated p. 90 Juan Antonio Gaya Nuño, Juan Gris, Barcelona, 1974, no. 274, illustrated p. 211 Douglas Cooper, Juan Gris: Catalogue raisonné de l'oeuvre peint, vol. I, Paris, 1977, no. 101, illustrated p. 161 Paz Garcia Ponce de Leon, Juan Gris, La Pasion por el Cubismo, illustrated p. 266

Provenance:

Galerie Kahnweiler, Paris Sale: vente Kahnweiler, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, May 7-8, 1923, lot 279 Private Collection, Paris Galerie Louise Leiris, Paris Buchholz Gallery (Curt Valentin), New York Georges Seligmann, New York Rose Fried Gallery, New York Mrs. Benjamin Watson, New York G. David Thompson, Pittsburgh Fine Arts Associates, New York Galerie Berggruen, Paris Norman Granz, Geneva (sold: Sotheby's, London, April 23, 1968, lot 5 ) Acquavella Galleries, New York (acquired at the above sale) Galerie Tarica, Paris Acquired from the above by the present owners