Lot 196
  • 196

JUAN GRIS | L'Homme à la pipe

Estimate
120,000 - 180,000 USD
bidding is closed

Description

  • Juan Gris
  • L'Homme à la pipe
  • Signed Juan Gris and dated 25 (lower left)
  • Oil on canvas
  • 13 3/4 by 10 3/4 in.
  • 35 by 27.3 cm
  • Painted between January and July 1925.

Provenance

Galerie Simon, Paris
Alfred Flechtheim, Berlin & London (his personal collection)
Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler, Paris (given by the above in part settlement of a trading debt in 1935)
Geoffrey Gorer, London
Richard Thune, Europe (and sold: Sotheby's, London, April 1, 1987, lot 184)
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner

Exhibited

Berlin, Galerie Flechtheim, In Memoriam Juan Gris, 1930, no. 46
Zurich, Kunsthaus, Juan Gris, 1933, no. 125 (lent by Alfred Flechtheim)
London, Leicester Galleries, 50 years of Portraits, 1935, no. 116
London, Marlborough Fine Art, Juan Gris Exhibition in Honour of Daniel-H. Kahnweiler, 1958, no. 33
Sète, Musée Paul Valery, Juan Gris, Rimes de la forme et de la couleur, 2011, n.n.

Literature

Douglas Cooper, Juan Gris, Catalogue raisonné de l'oeuvre peint, vol. II., San Francisco, 1977, no. 508, illustrated p. 333
Ottfried Dascher, Alfred Flechtheim, Sammler, Kunsthandler, Verleger, Nimbus Verlag, 2013, mentioned p. 425
Douglas Cooper, Juan Gris, Catalogue raisonné de l'oeuvre peint, vol. II., San Francisco, 2014, no. 508, illustrated p. 768

Condition

The work is in excellent condition. The canvas is not lined. There is some minor frame abrasion to the extreme edges at the upper right corner and the canvas is slightly dirty in places. Under UV light: no in-painting is apparent.
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Catalogue Note

This lot is offered pursuant to a settlement agreement between the heirs of Alfred Flechtheim and the current owner