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JUAN GRIS. Violin and Playing Cards on a Table

Violin and Playing Cards on a Table. Artist: Juan Gris (Spanish, Madrid 1887-1927 Boulogne-sur-Seine). Dimensions: 39 1/2 × 25 3/4 in. (100.3 × 65.4 cm). Date: 1913.
Gris composed this work during a three-month trip in 1913 to the small village of Céret in the Pyrenees. While this painting is not signed or dated, its colorful Cubist style of broad, angular, overlapping planes indicates that it belongs to a group of still lifes produced at this time. Here, Gris has painted a wood-grain table with three playing cards--heart, diamond, and club--a violin, and a copy of the newspaper Le Journal. The rust-red diamond pattern in the background emulates wallpaper and provides the fragmented image with the suggestion of depth.

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Author: JUAN GRIS (1887-1927)

Title: Violin and Playing Cards on a Table

Caption: Violin and Playing Cards on a Table. Artist: Juan Gris (Spanish, Madrid 1887-1927 Boulogne-sur-Seine). Dimensions: 39 1/2 × 25 3/4 in. (100.3 × 65.4 cm). Date: 1913. Gris composed this work during a three-month trip in 1913 to the small village of Céret in the Pyrenees. While this painting is not signed or dated, its colorful Cubist style of broad, angular, overlapping planes indicates that it belongs to a group of still lifes produced at this time. Here, Gris has painted a wood-grain table with three playing cards--heart, diamond, and club--a violin, and a copy of the newspaper Le Journal. The rust-red diamond pattern in the background emulates wallpaper and provides the fragmented image with the suggestion of depth.

Technique/material: OIL ON CANVAS

Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA

Credit: Album

Image size: 2693 × 4094 px | 31.5 MB

Print size: 22.8 × 34.7 cm | 1060.2 × 1611.8 in (300 dpi)

Keywords: CANVAS • EUROPE • JUAN GRIS • METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART, NEW YORK, USA • MODERN AND CONTEMPORARY ART • OIL ON CANVAS • OIL PAINTINGS • PAINTINGS • PROVENANCE RESEARCH PROJECT • SPAIN