Juan Gris:
Still Life with Checked Tablecloth
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Artist |
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Title |
Nature morte à la nappe à carreaux (Still life with checkered tablecloth) , Metropolitan Museum of Art, Leonard A. Lauder collection |
Object type |
painting
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Genre |
still life
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Date |
March 1915 date QS:P571,+1915-03-00T00:00:00Z/10 |
Medium |
oil on canvas medium QS:P186,Q296955;P186,Q12321255,P518,Q861259 |
Dimensions |
height: 116.5 cm (45.8 in); width: 89.3 cm (35.1 in) dimensions QS:P2048,116.5U174728 dimensions QS:P2049,89.3U174728 |
Collection |
institution QS:P195,Q160236 |
Current location |
Gallery 199 |
Accession number |
2014.463 |
Place of creation |
Paris |
Object history |
- Galerie de L'Effort Moderne [Léonce Rosenberg], Paris (no. 5114).
- Dr Gottlieb Friedrich Reber, Lausanne, by whom acquired in November 1925.
- Gisela M. Reber, Lugano, 1926.
- Galerie Gasser, Zurich, circa 1944.
- Professor Dr Wilhelm Löffler, Zurich, by 1955.
- Private collection, Zurich, a bequest from the above in 1972, and thence by descent.
- Sale London (Christies) 4 February 2014: .£34,802,500'
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Exhibition history |
- Dresden, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, Internationale Kunst Ausstellung, June – September 1926, no. 374.
- Zurich, Kunsthaus, Juan Gris, April 1933, no. 50 (illustrated).
- Zurich, Kunsthaus, Europäische Kunst 13-20 Jahrhundert aus Zu¨rcher Sammlungen, June – August 1950.
- Bern, Kunstmuseum, Juan Gris, October 1955 – January 1956, no. 23.
- Zurich, Kunsthaus, on loan April - December 1982.
- Stuttgart, Staatsgalerie, Juan Gris, December 1992 – February 1993, no. 46 (illustrated p. 203).
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Credit line |
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Leonard A. Lauder Cubist Collection, Purchase, Leonard A. Lauder Gift, 2014 |
Inscriptions |
Signature and date
verso:
Juan Gris 3-15
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Notes |
- The 2014 sale price was a record for the artist.
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References |
- Cahiers d’Art, Paris, 1927, no. 4-5 (illustrated p. 172).
- C. Einstein, Die Kunst des 20. Jahrhunderts, Berlin, 1931 (illustrated p. 375).
- Cahiers d’Art, Paris, 1933, no. 5-6 (illustrated).
- D.H. Kahnweiler, Juan Gris, His Life and Work, London, 1947 (illustrated pl. 21).
- J.T. Soby, Juan Gris, New York, 1958, pp. 50 & 61 (illustrated p. 60).
- D.H. Kahnweiler, Juan Gris, His Life and Work, New York, 1968 (illustrated p. 107).
- D. Cooper, Juan Gris, Catalogue raisonné de l’oeuvre peint, vol. I, Paris, 1977, no. 127, p. 194 (illustrated p. 195).
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Source/Photographer |
Christie's, LotFinder: entry
5766361 (sale 1505, lot 9) New version:
Metropolitan Museum of Art, Leonard A. Lauder collection |
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