$3,750
Juan Gris (France/Spain, 1887 - 1927) colorful abstract mixed media drawing, unframed, signed to lower right "Juan Gris" and measuring 14-7/8" in height with width of 13-3/4". No certificate of authenticity accompanies this piece, however style & signature are representative of the artist's known works. Provenance: from the estate of a prominent European & Texas collector, known to not only to have collected an assortment of notable art, but to have befriended a majority of the artists of whose work was acquired. In overall good condition, all measurements are approximate.Juan Gris was born in Madrid, Spain in 1887. His real name was Jose Victoriano Gonzalez and he was the thirteenth child of a Madrid businessman. He had grown up and gone to engineering school, where he was known for doodling caricatures of his professors and fellow students. After a brief apprenticeship as a comic illustrator in Spain, Gris got to Paris in 1906. He installed himself as Picasso's neighbor in Bateau-Lavoir, a ramshackle cluster of studios in Montmartre. When he moved to Paris at the age of nineteen, he considered himself strictly a graphic artist, an illustrator who contributed drawings to various periodicals. For the next six years, Gris was an observer rather than a participant in the upheavels that permanently changed the course of western art. Gris began painting watercolors in 1910; the following year he allowed his friends to see his first authorative oils. His output was small and Read more…
Auctioneer:
Bremoauctions
Date:
2017-02-18
