Juan GrisBlonde Marcelle 1921

This text discusses three lithographs, Blonde Marcelle 1921 (P11370), The Boy 1921 (P11371) and Jean the Musician 1921 (P11372).

From the winter of 1920 until mid-summer 1921 Gris stayed at Bandol on the French Mediterranean coast. There he made a series of transfer lithographs derived from line drawings. These were published in editions of fifty by the Galerie Simon in Paris, which was run by Gris' dealer Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler (1884-1979). Six lithographs were published in all and Tate owns examples of three of these: Blonde Marcelle (number twenty in the edition of fifty) , The Boy (number thirty-one in the edition of fifty), and Jean the Musician (number forty-six in the edition of fifty)… (read more)