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Juan Gris's Painting "Still Life with Checked Tablecloth" | MetCollects

"Does a collector ever stop collecting?" Leonard A. Lauder on Juan Gris's "Still Life with Checked Tablecloth."

"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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Still Life with Checked Tablecloth, Juan Gris  Spanish, Oil and graphite on canvas
Juan Gris
Paris, spring 1915