A Legacy of Beauty: The Collection of Sydell Miller Evening Auction

A Legacy of Beauty: The Collection of Sydell Miller Evening Auction

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Auction Closed

November 19, 12:49 AM GMT

Estimate

1,200,000 - 1,800,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Juan Gris

(1887 - 1927)


Carafe et pipe

signed Juan Gris,, dated 9-1917 and inscribed Paris (lower right)

oil on panel 

24 by 15 in.

61 by 38 cm.

Executed in September 1917.

Galerie L'Effort Moderne (Léonce Rosenberg), Paris

Dr. Gottlieb Friedrich Reber, Lausanne (probably acquired from the above)

Dr. Ingeborg Pudelko-Eichmann, Florence and Zurich (probably acquired from the above by 1955 and until at least 1974)

Private Collection, Switzerland

Galerie Art Focus, Zurich

Richard Gray Gallery, Chicago (acquired from the above in 2000)

Acquired from the above in 2001 by the present owner


Gotthard Jedlicka, Macht der Farbe in der Malerei des XX. Jahrhunderts, Stuttgart, 1962, pl. 38, illustrated (titled Stilleben)

Giulia Veronesi, L’Arte Moderna, vol. VI, Milan, 1967, p. 397; p. 16, illustrated in color (titled Natura morta)

Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler, Juan Gris: His Life and Work, New York, 1969, p. 273, illustrated; p. 316

Douglas Cooper, Juan Gris: Catalogue raisonné de l'oeuvre peint, vol. I, Paris, 1977, no. 231, pp. 340-41, illustrated

Dorothy Kosinski, “G.F. Reber: Collector of Cubism,” The Burlington Magazine, vol. 133, no. 1061, August 1991, p. 529

Andrea Pophanken and Felix Billeter, Die Moderne und ihre Sammler: Französische Kunst in Deutschem Privatbesitz, vom Kaiserreich zur Weimarer Republik, Berlin, 2001, no. 19, p. 395


Kunstmuseum Bern, Juan Gris, 1955-56, no. 47

Paris, Orangerie des Tuileries, Juan Gris, 1974, no. 63, p. 95, illustrated (titled Nature morte)

Kunsthalle Baden-Baden, Juan Gris, 1974, no. 50, n.p., illustrated