Juan Gris (1887-1927)
Arlequin à la guitare
signed and dated 'Juan Gris 1919' (lower left)
pen and ink on paper
13 3/8 x 10 in. (34 x 25.5 cm.)
Executed in 1919
Juan Gris (1887-1927)
Arlequin à la guitare
signed and dated 'Juan Gris 1919' (lower left)
pen and ink on paper
13 3/8 x 10 in. (34 x 25.5 cm.)
Executed in 1919
Mme Josette Gris and M. Georges Gonzalez Gris, by descent from the artist in 1927.
Douglas Cooper, London and Argilliers, from the late 1930s till 1976.
Lionel Prejger, Paris, by 1976.
Galerie Louise Leiris, Paris, by 1976 until at least 1985.
Galerie Bellechasse, Paris.
Acquired from the above by the previous owner.
D.H. Kahnweiler, Juan Gris, His life and work, London, 1947, no. 9 (illustrated p. 17).
J. Camón Aznar, Picasso y el Cubismo, Madrid, 1956 (illustrated pl. 104, p. 176).
Bielefeld, Kunsthalle, Zeichnungen und Collagen des Kubismus, Picasso, Braque, Gris, March - April 1979, no. 237 (illustrated p. 261).
Washington D.C., National Gallery of Art, Juan Gris 1887-1927, October - December 1983, no. 95 (illustrated p. 114); this exhibition later travelled to Berkeley, University Art Museum, University of California, February - April 1984 and New York, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, May - July 1984.
Madrid, Salas Pablo Ruiz Picasso, Juan Gris, 1887-1927, September - November 1985, no. 160 (illustrated p. 357).
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Please note that the correct medium of this work is pencil on paper.
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