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Maker(s):Gris, Juan
Culture:Spanish (1887 - 1927)
Title:Fruit Dish, Glass and Newspaper
Date Made:1916
Type:Painting
Materials:oil on canvas
Place Made:Spain
Measurements:stretcher: 13 x 18 1/4 in.; 33.02 x 46.355 cm
Narrative Inscription:  signed and dated in brown paint at lower left: Juan Gris 1916
Accession Number:  SC 1923.2.1
Credit Line:Gift of Joseph Brummer
Museum Collection:  Smith College Museum of Art
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Description:
still life; dish/bottle; reading/reading material

Label Text:
Juan Gris adopted Cubism in 1910, after Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque had invented the new style of fractured forms in 1908. This painting belongs to a series of still lifes with similar compositions and color palettes—brown, beige, violet, and green—painted by Gris in 1916. They are based on Paul Cézanne’s Still Life with Fruit Dish (1879-80, Museum of Modern Art, New York). Gris compresses the pictorial space and includes multiple viewpoints, picturing the fruit dish, glass, and newspaper from different angles. The table is largely deconstructed, and Gris simulates its wood grain texture by scoring into the paint layer.

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