Fruit-Dish on a Striped Cloth
Juan Gris Spanish
Not on view
The traditional still-life imagery of this collage is akin to that of Meléndez’s nearby tableau. Gris’s table, however, is tipped up vertically like the backboard of a classic trompe l’oeil letter-rack painting. The grid pattern inscribed on the cloth and echoed in the product labels recalls the straps that secure objects to such backboards. By carefully rendering the molding on the rim of the fruit dish and the crisp folds of the table linen, Gris flaunted his command of conventional illusionism—albeit the illusionism typical of “commercial” rather than “high” art.
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