Le guéridon

Details

Juan Gris (1887-1927)
Le guéridon
signed and dated 'Juan Gris 1922' (lower left)
oil on canvas
36 1/8 x 28¾ in. (91.8 x 73 cm.)
Painted in 1922

Provenance

Galerie Simon, Paris.
Dr. G. F. Reber, Lausanne, by 1925.
Marie Harriman Gallery, New York.
Buchholz Gallery [Curt Valentin], New York (no. 6888).
Joseph J. Pulitzer Jr., St. Louis, by 1947.
Buchholz Gallery [Curt Valentin], New York.
Mr and Mrs Arnold Maremont, Chicago, by whom acquired from the above. Mrs Hugh Horner, New York; her sale, Sotheby's, New York, 1 May 1974, lot 7.
Galerie Beyeler, Basel (no. 8150), by whom acquired from the above sale .
Private collection, Paris, by whom acquired from the above, and thence by descent to the present owner.

Literature

D.-H. Kahnweiler, Juan Gris, His Life and Work, London, 1947, no. 69, p. 171 (illustrated, titled 'Guitar, Water-bottle and Fruit-dish'). D. Cooper & M. Potter, Juan Gris, Catalogue raisonné de l'oeuvre peint, vol. II, Paris, 1977, no. 399, p. 220 (illustrated p. 221).

Exhibited

Paris, Galerie Simon, Juan Gris, March - April 1923, no. 43.
New York, Marie Harriman Gallery, Juan Gris, February 1932, no. 14.
Chicago, Renaissance Society, Works by 20th Century Artists, June - August 1934, no. 13 (incorrectly dated '1923').
Philadelphia, Museum of Art, Still Lifes, Spring 1935.
New York, Marie Harriman Gallery, Paintings by Braque, Gris, etc., March - April 1935, no. 9.
San Francisco, Golden Gate International Exposition, Contemporary European Art Section, February 1939, no. 20.
New York, Buchholz Gallery, Juan Gris, March - April 1944, no. 22 (illustrated).
Cincinnati, Art Museum, Juan Gris, April - May 1948, no. 45 (illustrated).
San Francisco, Museum of Modern Art, Picasso, Gris, Miró: The Spanish Masters of 20th Century Painting, September - October 1948, no. 38 (illustrated); this exhibition later travelled to Portland, Art Museum, October - November 1948.
Chicago, Arts Club of Chicago, Cubism, October - November 1955, no. 32 (illustrated).
Washington, D. C., Gallery of Modern Art, Treasure of 20th Century Art from the Maremont Collection, April - May 1964.
Baden-Baden, Staatliche Kunsthalle, Juan Gris, July - September 1974, no. 79 (illustrated).

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