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Tumbler, Knife, and Plate of Fruit,
1918
Juan Gris, Spanish, 1887–1927
x1986-91
The Spanish-born painter and draftsman Juan Gris studied mathematics and engineering in Madrid for two years before becoming an artist and moving to Paris in 1906. There, he met Picasso and his circle during the formative years of Cubism (1908–9). By 1911, Gris had become one of the foremost Cubist painters, and the precise, geometric contours of his compositions set his work apart from that of Picasso and Braque. According to his dealer, Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler, Gris drew little but deliberately, and considered his line drawings of everyday objects to be personal expressions in themselves. In these drawings the artist addressed issues of likeness and representation that did not appear in his more abstracted paintings of the same period.
Information
Title
Tumbler, Knife, and Plate of Fruit
Dates
1918
Maker
Medium
Graphite
Dimensions
25.8 x 33.4 cm (10 3/16 x 13 1/8 in.)
Credit Line
Bequest of Clinton Wilder, Class of 1943
Object Number
x1986-91
Inscription
in graphite, on verso of mount upper right: 73
in graphite, on verso of mount upper left: 5934
Culture
Type
Materials
Subject
Galerie Louis Leiris, Paris; Saidenberg Gallery, New York; Clinton Wilder
- Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler, Juan Gris: dessins et gouaches 1910-1927, (Paris: Galerie L. Leiris, 1965). , p. 40, no. 38 (illus.)
- "Acquisitions of the Art Museum 1986," Record of the Art Museum, Princeton University 46, no. 1 (1987): p. 18–52, p. 44
- Lisa A. Banner, Spanish Drawings in the Princeton University Art Museum, (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Art Museum, 2012)., p. 5, cat. no. 2; p. 6 (illus.); p. 7 (verso illus.)
