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Still Life (The Tobacco Pouch)

Juan Gris Spanish
Beaulieu (present-day Beaulieu-les-Loches), 1918
Not on view
Although these still-life objects are the same ones that appear in his prewar collages, here Gris worked in a classicizing style more in tune with wartime sobriety, creating a “new aesthetic based on the intellect,” as he wrote to his dealer Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler. Despite the seeming fidelity to nature in this still life, the strong diagonals and crystalline distillation of form betray Gris’s Cubist underpinnings. This illusionistic drawing is a study for a painting of an identical subject in a Cubist style (1918; private collection).

Artwork Details

Object Information
  • Title: Still Life (The Tobacco Pouch)
  • Artist: Juan Gris (Spanish, Madrid 1887–1927 Boulogne-sur-Seine)
  • Date: Beaulieu (present-day Beaulieu-les-Loches), 1918
  • Medium: Graphite on off-white laid paper
  • Dimensions: 12 × 18 1/2 in. (30.5 × 47 cm)
  • Classification: Drawings
  • Credit Line: Leonard A. Lauder Cubist Collection, Gift of Leonard A. Lauder, 2016
  • Object Number: 2016.237.5
  • Curatorial Department: Modern and Contemporary Art

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