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Violin and Playing Cards on a Table

Juan Gris Spanish
1913
Not on view
Gris composed this work during a three-month trip in 1913 to the small village of Céret in the Pyrenees. While this painting is not signed or dated, its colorful Cubist style of broad, angular, overlapping planes indicates that it belongs to a group of still lifes produced at this time. Here, Gris has painted a wood-grain table with three playing cards—heart, diamond, and club—a violin, and a copy of the newspaper Le Journal. The rust-red diamond pattern in the background emulates wallpaper and provides the fragmented image with the suggestion of depth.

Artwork Details

Object Information
  • Title: Violin and Playing Cards on a Table
  • Artist: Juan Gris (Spanish, Madrid 1887–1927 Boulogne-sur-Seine)
  • Date: 1913
  • Medium: Oil on canvas
  • Dimensions: 39 3/8 × 25 3/4 in. (100 × 65.4 cm)
  • Classification: Paintings
  • Credit Line: Bequest of Florene M. Schoenborn, 1995
  • Object Number: 1996.403.14
  • Curatorial Department: Modern and Contemporary Art

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