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Title:The Smoker
Artist:Juan Gris (Spanish, Madrid 1887–1927 Boulogne-sur-Seine)
Date:1913
Medium:Charcoal, crayon, and wash on paper
Dimensions:28 1/4 x 23 1/4 in. (71.8 x 59.1 cm)
Classification:Drawings
Credit Line:Jacques and Natasha Gelman Collection, 1998
Object Number:1999.363.29
Frank Burty Haviland, Céret and Paris (from ca. 1913; sold to Buchholz); [Buchholz Gallery (Curt Valentin), New York, in 1950]; G. David Thompson, Pittsburgh (in 1958); [E. V. Thaw & Co., Inc. and Pierre Matisse Gallery, New York, by 1960–1966; sold by Thaw in 1966 to Echeverría]; Pedro Vallenilla Echeverría, Caracas (1966–75; sold in 1975 to Thaw); [E. V. Thaw & Co., Inc., New York, from 1975; sold to Weinberg]; Rolf and Margrit Weinberg, Zürich (by 1980–88; sold in 1988 to Ammann); [Thomas Ammann Fine Art, Zürich, 1988; sold in 1988 to Gelman]; Natasha Gelman, Mexico City and New York (1988–d. 1998; her bequest to MMA)
New York. Buchholz Gallery, Curt Valentin. "Juan Gris," January 16–February 11, 1950, no. 37 (as "Portrait of Frank Haviland").
New York. Museum of Modern Art. "Juan Gris," April 9–June 1, 1958, unnumbered cat. (p. 30; as "Smoker," 1912, lent by Mr. and Mrs. G. David Thompson, Pittsburgh).
New York. New Gallery. "Modern Master Drawings," October 1960, no. 11 (as "Le Fumeur [Portrait of Frank Haviland]," 1912).
New York. Leonard Hutton Galleries. "Albert Gleizes and the Section d'Or," October 28–December 5, 1964, no. 29 (as "'Portrait of Frank Haviland' [The Smoker]," 1912).
Paris. Galerie Louise Leiris. "Juan Gris: Dessins et gouaches, 1910–1927," June 17–July 17, 1965, no. 15 (as "Le fumeur," lent by a private collection).
Dortmund. Museum am Ostwall. "Juan Gris," October 23–December 4, 1965, no. 111 (lent by E. V. Thaw & Co., New York).
Cologne. Wallraf-Richartz-Museum. "Juan Gris," December 29, 1965–February 13, 1966, no. 111 (lent by E. V. Thaw & Co., New York).
Museo de Bellas Artes de Caracas. "Obras cubistas y 'Collages': Colección Pedro Vallenilla Echeverría, Caracas," February 1966, no. 4 (as "'El Fumador' [Retrato de Frank Haviland]," 1912).
Caracas. Fundación Eugenio Mendoza. "Pinturas Cubistas y 'Collages': Colección Pedro Vallenilla Echeverría, Caracas," August 1968, no. 6.
Museo de Bellas Artes de Caracas. "Obras cubistas y 'Collages' II: Colección Pedro Vallenilla Echeverría, Caracas," 1970, unnumbered cat. (pl. 7; dated 1912).
Galerie des Beaux-Arts, Bordeaux. "Les Cubistes," May 4–September 1, 1973, no. 83 (as "Le Fumeur," 1912, lent by M. Pedro Vallenilla Echeverría, Caracas).
Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris. "Les Cubistes," September 26–November 10, 1973, no. 83.
Rome. Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna. "Il Cubismo," December 6, 1973–January 13, 1974, no. 41 (as "Il Fumatore," 1912, lent by Sig. Pedro Vallenilla Echeverrìa [sic], Caracas).
Museo de Arte Contemporaneo, Caracas. "Colección de obras cubistas y Collages Pedro Vallenilla Echeverría," February–March 1974, no. 48 (as "El Fumador [Retrato de Frank Haviland]," 1912).
Paris. Orangerie des Tuileries. "Juan Gris," March 14–July 1, 1974, no. 123 (as "Le fumeur," lent by Pedro Vallenilla Echeverria, Caracas).
Kunstmuseum Winterthur. "'Rot konstruiert' und 'Super Table': Eine Schweizer Sammlung moderner Kunst, 1909–1939," March 2–April 13, 1980, unnumbered cat. (p. 51; as "Le fumeur").
Hannover. Kestnergesellschaft. "Meisterwerke des XX. Jahrhunderts: De Chirico, Magritte, Mondrian u.a. Eine Schweizer Sammlung moderner Kunst," April 25–June 15, 1980, unnumbered cat. (p. 51; as "Le fumeur").
Ludwigshafen am Rhein. Wilhelm-Hack-Museum. "Meisterwerke des XX. Jahrhunderts: Eine schweizer Sammlung moderner Kunst, 1909–1939," June 29–August 17, 1980, unnumbered cat. (p. 51; as "Le fumeur").
Washington, D.C. National Gallery of Art. "Juan Gris," October 16–December 31, 1983, no. 89 (as "Study for 'The Smoker,'" lent by Rolf and Margit Weinberg, Switzerland).
University Art Museum, University of California at Berkeley. "Juan Gris," February 1–April 8, 1984, no. 89.
New York. Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum. "Juan Gris," May 18–July 15, 1984, no. 89.
Madrid. Salas Pablo Ruiz Picasso. "Juan Gris (1887–1927)," September 20–November 24, 1985, no. 121 (as "El fumador [Le Fumeur]," 1912, lent by Rolf and Margit Weinberg, Switzerland).
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Twentieth-Century Modern Masters: The Jacques and Natasha Gelman Collection," December 12, 1989–April 1, 1990, unnumbered cat. (p. 120).
London. Royal Academy of Arts. "Twentieth-Century Modern Masters: The Jacques and Natasha Gelman Collection," April 19–July 15, 1990, unnumbered cat.
Martigny. Fondation Pierre Gianadda. "De Matisse à Picasso: Collection Jacques et Natasha Gelman," June 18–November 1, 1994, unnumbered cat. (p. 145).
Madrid. Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía. "Juan Gris: Paintings and Drawings 1910–1927," June 22–September 19, 2005, no. 181.
James Thrall Soby. Juan Gris. Exh. cat., Museum of Modern Art. New York, 1958, p. 27, ill. p. 30.
Hilton Kramer. "Month in Review." Arts 32 (May 1958), ill. p. 51.
Stuart Preston. "Current and Forthcoming Exhibitions: New York." Burlington Magazine 102 (December 1960), p. 549, fig. 40.
John Richardson inJuan Gris. Exh. cat., Museum am Ostwall. [Dortmund], 1965, unpaginated, no. 111, ill., dates it 1912.
Juan Calzadilla inObras cubistas y "Collages": Colección Pedro Vallenilla Echeverría, Caracas. Exh. cat., Museo de Bellas Artes de Caracas. Caracas, 1966, unpaginated, no. 4, ill., dates it 1912.
Michèle Richet and Claudie Judrin inJuan Gris. Exh. cat., Orangerie des Tuileries. Paris, 1974, p. 117, no. 123, ill., date it 1912.
Margit Staber inMeisterwerke des XX. Jahrhunderts: Eine Schweizer Sammlung moderner Kunst, 1909–1939. Exh. cat., [Kunstmuseum Winterthur]. Bern, 1980, pp. 50–51, ill., dates it 1912.
Mark Rosenthal. Juan Gris. Exh. cat., University Art Museum, University of California, Berkeley. New York, 1983, pp. 34, 181, no. 89, ill. p. 32 (color), dates it 1912.
Kenneth Silver. "Eminence Gris." Art in America 72, no. 5 (May 1984), pp. 154–55, ill.
Sabine Rewald inTwentieth-Century Modern Masters: The Jacques and Natasha Gelman Collection. Ed. William S. Lieberman. Exh. cat., The Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York, 1989, pp. 119–21, 301, ill. (color and bw).
William S. Lieberman inTwentieth-Century Modern Masters: The Jacques and Natasha Gelman Collection. Ed. William S. Lieberman. Exh. cat., The Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York, 1989, pp. 12–13.
Gary Tinterow inTwentieth-Century Modern Masters: The Jacques and Natasha Gelman Collection. Ed. William S. Lieberman. Exh. cat., The Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York, 1989, p. 35.
John Russell. "20th-Century Works Collected By a Couple With a Shared Vision." New York Times (December 12, 1989), p. C24.
Patrick-Gilles Persin. "La Collection Jacques et Natasha Gelman." L'Œil no. 465 (October 1994), pp. 48, 51, ill. (color).
Christopher Green. The Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection. The European Avant-Gardes: Art in France and Western Europe, 1904–c 1945. Ed. Irene Martin. London, 1995, pp. 214–16, fig. 2, calls it "Study for the Smoker".
Paloma Esteban Leal inJuan Gris: Paintings and Drawings 1910–1927. Ed. Paloma Esteban Leal. Exh. cat., Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía. Madrid, 2005, vol. 1, p. 38, colorpl. 181; vol. 2, pp. 188–89, no. 181, ill., dates it 1912.
Rafael Jackson Martín. Juan Gris. Barcelona, 2005, pp. 26, 62, ill. (color), calls it "Study for 'The Smoker'" and dates it 1912; erroneously locates it still in a private collection, Switzerland.
Christian Derouet inJuan Gris: Paintings and Drawings 1910–1927. Ed. Paloma Esteban Leal. Exh. cat., Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía. Madrid, 2005, vol. 1, pp. 119, 127 n. 5.
Paloma Alarcó inMuseo Thyssen-Bornemisza: Selected Works. Ed. Mar Borobia and Paloma Alarcó. Madrid, 2011, p. 242.
The ninth-annual Women and the Critical Eye program featuring a conversation between Emily Braun and Rebecca Rabinow, who discuss Leonard Lauder's criteria for collecting, including the importance of the "aesthetic wow," rarity, state of conservation, and attention to a work's curriculum vitae.
Juan Gris (Spanish, Madrid 1887–1927 Boulogne-sur-Seine)
ca. 1927
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