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 Juan Gris

"Nature morte"

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(1922)

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"Nature morte" 1922, color pochoir, 165x250mm; 6 1/2" x 9 7/8", wide margins.  Published by L'Esprit Nouveau, Paris.  The exact edition size is unknown.  "Nature morte" was possibly printed at the studio of Pouyard, Paris (1922).  A large part of the edition was lost or damaged; thus impressions are now very rare.  A very good impression (expertly repaired tear) of this scarce print [Kahnweiler 34].

Juan Gris (1887-1927) was born in Madrid and studied mathematics and engineering before training as a painter.  He moved to Paris in 1906 and began working as an illustrator.  In 1908, Gris met Picasso and began working in the Cubist style.  In 1912, he signed a contract with Kahnweiler, distancing himself from the salon cubists and by 1914 had introduced papier colles and collage into his work.  During World War I (he was exempt from military duty) Gris developed a synthetic cubist style.  He is considered one of the four great exponents of pure Cubism, along with Leger and Picasso, and Braque.  Georges Braque is now considered the originator of Cubism (John Golding, 1959).

Many artists contributed to the development of Cubism, but Juan Gris was the most important.  Gris extended Braque's intellectualism of the concept of Cubism further, elevating Cubism to its highest artistic achievement.  Cubism is a realistic art, which aims to be as accurate a form of representation as possible without the need for modeling by chiaroscuro.  Gris was at first welcomed and tutored in Cubism by Picasso, but subsequently treated harshly by Picasso as Gris advanced Cubism from the analytic to the synthetic and mastered the art form in his short lifetime.  Gris achieved the resolution of the three primary challenges Cubism presented of the sphere, cone and volume.  Gris' works were neither geometrical nor monumental space, but arranged such that the forms of the objects appear to be inscribed without effort on the flat surface as pure graphic emblems.

"Nature morte" is in a Larson-Juhl "Le Cirque" series 21 7/8" x 24 1/16" boot black tiered frame stacked with a Roman gold fillet.  The Titian gold outer, ivory black beveled-accent middle and grain inner rag mats are acid and lignin free and protected with Acrylite-OP3 (UV) by CYRO ..... $5700.00

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