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Checkerboard and Playing Cards

Juan Gris Spanish
Paris, 1915
Not on view
Many Cubist artworks depict dice, game boards, and cards interspersed among bottles of liquor, wineglasses, coffee cups, and newspapers. Gris’s still lifes are not everyday genre scenes, but rather exercises in distillation and design. The patterned checkerboard was one of Gris’s favorite motifs. This gouache is related to a larger painting of the same title in the National Gallery of Australia, Canberra.

Artwork Details

Object Information
  • Title: Checkerboard and Playing Cards
  • Artist: Juan Gris (Spanish, Madrid 1887–1927 Boulogne-sur-Seine)
  • Date: Paris, 1915
  • Medium: Gouache, graphite, and resin on cream-colored wove paper, mounted to paperboard
  • Dimensions: 8 1/4 × 11 3/4 in. (21 × 29.8 cm)
  • Classification: Drawings
  • Credit Line: Leonard A. Lauder Cubist Collection, Gift of Leonard A. Lauder, 2016
  • Object Number: 2016.237.16
  • Curatorial Department: Modern and Contemporary Art

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The Musician’s Table, Juan Gris Spanish, Conté crayon, wax crayon, gouache, cut-and-pasted printed wallpaper, blue and white laid papers, transparentized paper, newspaper, and brown wrapping paper; selectively varnished on canvas
The Musician’s Table
Juan Gris
1914
Rapier, Steel, silver, blade, Spanish
Rapier
blade, Spanish
probably 19th century in the 16th century style
Bottle, Glass, and Pipe (Violette de Parme), Georges Braque French, Cut-and-pasted newspaper, painted paper and wallpaper, charcoal, graphite, and gouache on paperboard
Bottle, Glass, and Pipe (Violette de Parme)
Georges Braque
Paris, early 1914
Pears and Grapes on a Table, Juan Gris Spanish, Oil on canvas
Pears and Grapes on a Table
Juan Gris
Céret, autumn 1913
Drawing of Two Medieval Swords, Mariano Fortuny Marsal Spanish, Paper, ink, graphite, Spanish
Drawing of Two Medieval Swords
Mariano Fortuny Marsal
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