Fruit-Dish on a Striped Cloth
Returned to lender
This work of art was on loan to the museum and has since been returned to its lender.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.
Artwork Details
- Title: Fruit-Dish on a Striped Cloth
- Artist: Juan Gris (Spanish, Madrid 1887–1927 Boulogne-sur-Seine)
- Date: 1914
- Medium: Cut-and-pasted printed wallpaper, laid and wove papers, printed packaging, wax crayon, watercolor, conté crayon, gouache, and graphite on canvas
- Dimensions: 17 11/16 × 14 9/16 in. (45 × 37 cm)
- Classification: Collages
- Credit Line: Frelinghuysen Morris House & Studio, Lenox, Massachussets
- Rights and Reproduction: Collection of Frelinghuysen Morris House & Studio, Lenox, Massachusetts
- Curatorial Department: Modern and Contemporary Art