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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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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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.
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