"Does a collector ever stop collecting?" Leonard A. Lauder on Juan Gris's "Still Life with Checked Tablecloth"
Featuring:
Emily Braun
Distinguished Professor, Hunter College and the Graduate Center, CUNY
Curator, The Leonard A. Lauder Collection
Isabelle Duvernois
Associate Conservator, The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Rebecca Rabinow
Leonard A. Lauder Curator of Modern Art and Curator-in-Charge of the Leonard A. Lauder Research Center for Modern Art, The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Juan Gris (Spanish, 1887–1927). Still Life with Checked Tablecloth, 1915. Oil on canvas; 45 7/8 x 35 1/8 in. (116.5 x 89.2 cm). The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Leonard A. Lauder Cubist Collection, Purchase, Leonard A. Lauder Gift, 2014
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