Guitar and Glasses
Juan Gris Spanish
Not on view
Gris seamlessly combined cuttings from a tobacco package and his favorite faux wood-grain wallpapers with his handmade imitations of printed materials: the checked tablecloth that doubles as floor tiles, sheet of music, and label for “BOR[DEAUX] V[IN].” The tabletop tips up vertically, all but negating spatial recession, and the glinting bottle and wineglasses seem to push through the picture plane in classic trompe l’oeil style. The haunting fusion of guitar and table in a shadowy room and the remnants of a past gathering with music recall the theme of Baschenis’s rediscovered masterpiece (shown nearby), which Gris may have known in reproduction.
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