Lot 375
  • 375

Juan Gris

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Description

  • Juan Gris
  • ÉTUDE POUR 'LES TENTATIONS DE LA BERGÈRE'
  • Signed juan gris (lower right); also inscribed Agrandir 20 fois (lower left)

  • Pencil on paper

  • 7 3/8 by 9 3/8 in.
  • 18.8 by 23.7 cm

Provenance

Mikhail Larionov, Russia
John P. Richardson, New York
Private Collection

Exhibited

Granada, Auditorio Manuel de Falla, España y los Ballets Russes, 1989, no. 90
Torrelavaga, Spain, Sala Muriedas, El Arte del Dibujo, 2000, illustrated p. 49
Madrid, Galería Guillermo de Osma and Barcelona, Oriol Galería D'Art, Cubism, 2001-02, no. 8
Madrid, Galería Guillermo de Osma, Vanguardia sobre papel 1900-1950, 2002
Bilbao, Fundación BBK, El Arte del Dibujo. El Dibujo en el Arte, 2005, illustrated p. 107

Catalogue Note

This drawing is one of a number of studies for the set designs and costumes executed by Gris in 1923 for Diaghilev's ballet Les Tentations de la bergère.