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Juan Gris (1887-1927)
Lot 389

Juan Gris (1887-1927)

Les figues

Closed6 February 2020

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GBP 225,000

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Juan Gris (1887-1927)
Les figues
signed and dated '24 Juan Gris' (lower right)
oil on canvas
10 ¾ x 13 ¾ in. (27.3 x 35 cm.)
Painted between February and August 1924

Galerie Simon, Paris.
Svensk-Franska Konstgalleriet, Stockholm.
Hans Söderlund, Stockholm, by 1954.
Gustaf Söderlund, Stockholm, by 1977.
Anonymous sale, Sotheby's, London, 4 April 1990, lot 339.
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.

Specialist note


'I have also been successful in ridding my painting of a too brutal and descriptive reality. It has, so to speak, become more poetic'
(Gris, quoted in D.-H. Kahnweiler, Juan Gris: His Life and Work, London, 1969, p. 213).