Artist: Juan Gris (1887 - 1927)
Nationality: Spanish
Movement: Cubism
Media: Painting
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Biography:
Born in Madrid as Jose Victoriano Gonzalez, Juan Gris began his artistic career as a magazine illustrator. Beginning in 1912 under the influence of Picasso and Matisse, Gris lead the development of Synthetic Cubism, often using collage elements as well as distortion. In the 1920’s, he moved to Boulogne to expand his talents into the costume, set design, sculpture and book illustration fields.

Artworks in Museum Collections: (40)
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Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco -
Juan Gris, Homage to Pablo Picasso after Juan Gris in the book Du cubisme (Paris: Compagnie FranÁaise des Arts Graphiques, 31 July 1947)., 1947
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Juan Gris, Still Life with Book, 1925
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Juan Gris, Denise by Raymond Radiguet (Paris: …ditions de la Galerie Simon, 1926), 1926
The Minneapolis Institute of Arts -
Artist: Juan Gris Title: Still Life Date: 1917 Medium: oil on panel Dimensions: H.28-3/4 x
The Minneapolis Institute of Arts -
Artist: Juan Gris Title: Seated Harlequin Date: n.d. Medium: oil on canvas Dimensions: H.36 x
Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco -
Juan Gris, Untitled, in the book Denise by Raymond Radiguet (Paris: …ditions de la Galerie Simon, 1926), 1926
Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco -
Juan Gris, Untitled, in the book Denise by Raymond Radiguet (Paris: …ditions de la Galerie Simon, 1926), 1926
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Juan Gris, Untitled, in the book Denise by Raymond Radiguet (Paris: …ditions de la Galerie Simon, 1926), 1926
Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco -
Juan Gris, Untitled, in the book Denise by Raymond Radiguet (Paris: …ditions de la Galerie Simon, 1926), 1926
Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco -
Juan Gris, Untitled, cover for the book Denise by Raymond Radiguet (Paris: …ditions de la Galerie Simon, 1926), 1926
J. Paul Getty Museum -
Juan Gris
Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco -
Armlet with talisman (gris gris), 20th century
Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco -
Talisman with four triangles (gris gris), 20th century
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Talismanic pendant (gris gris), 20th century
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Juan Gris - Abstraction 1913 oil on canvas The Art Institute of Chicago Spanish
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Juan Gris - Fantomas 1915 oil on canvas National Gallery of Art Spanish
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Juan Gris - Le Journal 1916 oil on wood Norton Museum of Art Spanish
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Juan Gris - Still Life 1917 oil on panel Minneapolis Institute of Arts Spanish
Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco -
Talismanic pendant (gris gris), 20th century
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Talismanic pendant (gris gris), 20th century
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Talismanic belt (gris gris), 20th century
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Saidi, Tubular talisman (gris gris), 20th century
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Three-triangle charm pendant (gris gris), 20th century
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Juan Gris - Seated Harlequin c. 1920 oil on canvas Minneapolis Institute of Arts Spanish
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Juan Gris - Seated Figure 1920 pencil Arkansas Arts Center Spanish
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Juan Gris - Guitar and Compote 1921 oil on canvas The Art Institute of Chicago Spanish
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Juan Gris - Glass and Playing Cards 1915 oil and sand on card The Art Institute of Chicago Spanish
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Juan Gris - Portrait of Pablo Picasso 1912 oil on canvas The Art Institute of Chicago Spanish
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Juan Gris - The Coffee Mill (Le Moulin a Café) 1916 oil on canvas Cleveland Museum of Art Spanish
Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco -
Alexandra Exter, Don Juan and Death (Rostand"s Last Night of Don Juan), pl. 8 from the set, DÈcors de thÈ‚tre, 1930
Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco -
Georges Braque, Fenetres: Oiseaux Gris, 1962
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Juan Gris - Still Life with Playing Cards (Draughts Board and Playing Cards) 1916 oil on canvas Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum Spanish
Museum of Fine Arts -
Juan Gris, Spanish, 1887-1927 Still Life with a Guitar 1925 Oil on canvas 73 x
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Francisco de Goya - Don Juan Antonio Cuervo 1819 oil on canvas Cleveland Museum of Art Spanish
Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco -
Juan Salazar, Desintegracion, 1971
The Metropolitan Museum of Art -
Pietà, probably 1657-60 Juan de Valdés Leal (Spanish, 1622-1690); Juan Carreño de Miranda (Spanish, 1615-1685),
Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco -
D. Huot, Le cheval gris, page 49 of the book, Mon passe-tems dÈdiÈ ý moi-mÍme , vol.2, circa 1811 - 1813
Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco -
Juan Dolivar, Valencienne, 17th century
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Juan Antonio Gonzalez, Indiscretion, 1881
The Minneapolis Institute of Arts -
Artist: Salvador Dali Title: Portrait of Juan de Pareja, the Assistant to Valezquez Date: 1960

Artnews Articles and Exhibition Information: (8)
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Fundacao Arpad Szenes - Vieira da Silva: Marc Chagall: Engravings from 1951 to 1964
In addition to the 59 lithographs, among which are Les amoureux, 1951, Couple Ocre, 1952, Nu dans la fenêtre, 1953-54, Notre-Dame en gris, 1955, Derrière le miroir, 1964, also on display will be the original illustrated editions of "Et sur la te...
Corcoran: At the Edge: A Portuguese Futurist, Amadeo de Souza-Cardoso

Amadeo de Souza-Cardoso lived in Paris between 1906 and 1915, becoming friends with artists such as Modigliani, Gris, Brancusi, Archipenko and Boccio...
Clark Art Institute of Art: Noble Dreams, Wicked Pleasures: Orientalism in America, 1870-1930
The rich history of this American Orientalism will be the subject of Noble Dreams, Wicked Pleasures: Orientalism in America, 1870-1930, a traveling exhibition organized by the Sterling and ...
Gemeentemuseum Den Haag: From Picasso to Tàpies: Spanish 20th Century Art from the Reina Sofia
Spanish artists working in the period before 1945 exercised a major influence on artistic developments in the twentieth century. They were in the vanguard of the changes taking place in the art world, in style, in professional attitudes and in the...
Museum of Fine Arts, Basel: The House for Cubism: The Raoul La Roche Collection
Raoul La Roche, born in Basel in 1889, went to Paris as a young banker in 1911. There he cultivated close contact with his compatriots, including the architect from La Chaux-de-Fonds, Charles-Edou...
Sprengel Museum: Cubisme - Cubism: An Artistic Watershed in Europe 1906-1926
Around then, the Moscow collector Ivan Morossov also bought Picassos. Villa Schschukin in the grand Snamenski Lane was open to the public from 1909, providing many Moscow artists, such as M. Larionov and N. Gont-scharova, David Buliyuk, Kasimir Ma...
Modern Museum of Art: Modern Starts: Things
In painting, the still-life genre, with its focus on the representation of objects, experienced a renewed interest. Beginning with P...
Fogg Art Museum, Harvard: Passionate and Obstinate: The Lois Orswell Collection
Passionate and Obstinate (the phrase is Orswell’s self-description) will feature works from the Lois Orswell Collection as a cohesive group for the first time. Orswell was a distinctive collector whose methods were unlike those of her contemporari...

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