Juan Gris, Still Life with Guitar 1924
Summary
Bequeathed by Elly Kahnweiler 1991 to form part of the gift of Gustav and Elly Kahnweiler and accessioned 1994
T06815
This text discusses three works on paper, Pipe and Domino 1924 (T06812), Bowl of Fruit 1924 (T06813) and Still Life, Guitar and Carafe 1924 (T06815).
By 1924, Gris had achieved prominence with both the public and the avant-garde and was beginning to enjoy considerable commercial success. His reputation was additionally enhanced that year by the success of a lecture titled 'On the Possibilities of Painting' which he delivered to students at the Sorbonne university in Paris. This was subsequently published and translated into English, Spanish and German (Kahnweiler, pp.139-44). In it Gris described painting as 'a sort of flat, coloured architecture' (Kahnweiler, p… (read more)
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