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Guitar and Glasses

Juan Gris Spanish
1914
Not on view
Returned to lender
This work of art was on loan to the museum and has since been returned to its lender.
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.

Artwork Details

Object Information
  • Title: Guitar and Glasses
  • Artist: Juan Gris (Spanish, Madrid 1887–1927 Boulogne-sur-Seine)
  • Date: 1914
  • Medium: Cut-and-pasted printed wallpapers, wove papers, printed packaging, gouache, conté crayon, and wax crayon on paper mounted on canvas
  • Dimensions: 36 1/8 × 25 1/2 in. (91.5 × 64.6 cm)
  • Classification: Collages
  • Credit Line: The Museum of Modern Art, New York, Nelson A. Rockefeller Bequest, 1979
  • Rights and Reproduction: © The Museum of Modern Art / Licensed by SCALA/ Art Resource, NY
  • Curatorial Department: Modern and Contemporary Art