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About the Artwork

Still Life

1916

Juan Gris

1887-1927

Spanish

Unknown

Oil on canvas

Unframed: 31 3/4 × 23 1/2 inches (80.6 × 59.7 cm) Framed: 40 3/8 × 32 1/2 × 2 1/8 inches (102.6 × 82.6 × 5.4 cm)

Paintings

European Modern Art to 1970

Founders Society Purchase with funds from the Dexter M. Ferry, Jr. Trustee Corporation

64.84

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Markings

Signed and dated, lower left: Juan Gris | 3-16

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Provenance

(Léonce Rosenberg [1879-1947], Galerie de l'Effort moderne, Paris, France). possibly F. Valentine Dudensing [1892-1967] (New York, New York, USA). James Johnson Sweeney [1900-1986] (New York, New York, USA). Sidney Janis Gallery (New York, New York, USA)

1964, gift of Dexter M. Ferry, Jr. Trustee Corporation

1964-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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Published References

Lipchitz, Jacques and Juan Gris. Juan Gros 1887-1927. Exh. cat., Buchholz Gallery. New York, 1944, no. 9.

The Institute Collects. Exh. cat., Detroit Institute of Arts. Detroit, 1965, p. 15.

The W. Hawkins Ferry Collection. Exh. cat., Detroit Institute of Arts. Detroit, 1966, unpaginated, cat. 44 (ill.).

Cooper, Douglas. Juan Gris: Catalogue Raisonne de l'Oeuvre Peint Etablis Avec la Collaboration de Margaret Potter, vol. I. Paris, 1977, pp. 284-249, no. 164.

The W. Hawkins Ferry Collection. Exh. cat., Detroit Institute of Arts. Detroit, 1987, p. 27, no. 26 (ill.).

Leal, Paloma Esteban. Juan Gris: Paintings and Drawings 1910-1927. Exh. cat., Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia. Madrid, 2005, p. 78.

Myers, Nicole R. and Katherine Rothkopf, ed. Cubism in Color: The Still Lifes of Juan Gris. Exh. cat., The Baltimore Museum of Art and Dallas Museum of Art. New Haven and London, 2021, p. 139, no. 23 (ill.).

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Credit Line for Reproduction

Juan Gris, Still Life, 1916, oil on canvas. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase with funds from the Dexter M. Ferry, Jr. Trustee Corporation, 64.84.

Still Life
Still Life