I Love Cubism | Juan Gris

José Victoriano (Carmelo Carlos) González-Pérez (March 23, 1887 – May 11, 1927), better known as Juan Gris (Spanish: [ˈxwan ˈɡɾis]; French: [gʀi]), was a Spanish painter and sculptor born in Madrid who lived and worked in France most of his life. Closely connected to the innovative artistic genre Cubism, his works are among the movement’s most distinctive.

bottle

landscape-with-house-at-ceret-1913

maisons-a-paris-1911

newspaper-and-fruit-bowl-1915

portrait-of-josette-gris-1916

the-bottle-of-anis-del-mono-1914

violin-and-glass-1918

woman-with-a-mandolin-after-corot-1916-oil-on-board

jar-bottle-glass-1911

seated-woman-1917

still-life-on-plaque-1917

the-smoker-1913

photograph-of-violin-and-checkerboard-1913

(via The Art Stack)

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