Grapes

Juan Gris · October 1913

You're looking at Grapes, painted by Juan Gris in October nineteen thirteen. The subject is broken into planes but never loses its footing. Gris tended to begin from the composition and arrive at the object, which is the reverse of how his colleagues worked.

Medium Oil on canvas · Dimensions 36 1/4 x 23 5/8" (92.1 x 60 cm) · Credit Bequest of Anna Erickson Levene in memory of her husband, Dr. Phoebus Aaron Theodor Levene

Hanging beside it in Gallery 503: I and the Village, The Reservoir, Horta de Ebro

Works like this one elsewhere in the museum: Cubist Landscape, Composition C, Composition with Red, Blue, Black, Yellow, and Gray, Vertical and Diagonal Planes, Composition with Color Planes 5, 2x-2

More by Juan Gris here: Still Life with Flowers, Jar, Bottle and Glass