Portrait of Mme Cézanne after Cézanne (recto); Caricatures (verso)

Beaulieu (present-day Beaulieu-les-Loches), 1916

Not on view

Gris based this image on a postcard reproduction of Paul Cézanne’s portrait of his wife Hortense Fiquet. (The actual canvas, which Gris never saw, is owned by the Art Institute of Chicago.) During World War I, Cézanne’s art was touted as a continuation of France’s grand artistic tradition, and he was credited for emphasizing the permanence and stability of geometric forms. In defining his new style of Synthetic Cubism, Gris claimed that “Cézanne turns a bottle into a cylinder, but I begin with a cylinder and create an individual [object] of a specific type: I make a bottle—a particular bottle—out of a cylinder.”

Artwork Details

Title: Portrait of Mme Cézanne after Cézanne (recto); Caricatures (verso)
Artist: Juan Gris (Spanish, Madrid 1887–1927 Boulogne-sur-Seine)
Date: Beaulieu (present-day Beaulieu-les-Loches), 1916
Medium: Graphite on paper (recto); graphite on paper (verso)
Dimensions: 8 1/4 × 6 1/2 in. (21 × 16.5 cm)
Classification: Drawings
Credit Line: Leonard A. Lauder Cubist Collection, Gift of Leonard A. Lauder, 2016
Object Number: 2016.237.27a, b
Curatorial Department: Modern and Contemporary Art

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Costume Design for the Shepherdess, for the Ballet 'Les Tentations de la Bergère, premiered at the Théâtre de Monte Carlo, 1924, Juan Gris Spanish, Watercolor and gouache — Costume Design for the Shepherdess, for the Ballet 'Les Tentations de la Bergère, premiered at the Théâtre de Monte Carlo, 1924
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