Juan Gris (1887-1927)

Portrait de Louis Guillaume (d'après Paul Cézanne)

Details

Juan Gris (1887-1927)
Portrait de Louis Guillaume (d'après Paul Cézanne)
pencil on paper
14 x 10¾ in. (35.5 x 27.4 cm.)
Drawn in 1916

Provenance

Georges Gonzales Gris, Paris.
Galerie Louise Leiris, Paris.
Douglas Cooper, London and Argilliers (acquired from the above, 1966). William A. McCarty-Cooper, Los Angeles (by descent from the above); estate sale, Christie's, New York, 11 May 1992, lot 11.
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.

Literature

J. Clay, "Juan Gris, The Broken Destiny," Realitiés, December 1965, p. 66 (illustrated in color).
J. Rewald, The Paintings of Paul Cézanne, A Catalogue Raisonné, New York, 1996, p. 283 (illustrated, p. 282).

Exhibited

Paris, Galerie Louise Leiris, Juan Gris: Dessins et gouaches, 1910-1927, June-July 1965, p. 32, no. 27 (illustrated).
Baden-Baden, Staatliche Kunsthalle, Juan Gris, July-September 1974, no. z20 (illustrated).
Basel, Kunstmuseum; London, The Tate Gallery, and Philadelphia, Museum of Art, Douglas Cooper and the Masters of Cubism, November 1987-July 1988, p. 202, no. 17 (illustrated, p. 95).
Houston, The Museum of Fine Arts, and Los Angeles, County Museum of Art, Picasso, Braque, Gris, Léger: Douglas Cooper Collecting Cubism, October 1990-April 1991, p. 60, no. 20.

Lot Essay

See note to lot 329. This drawing is based on Cézanne's oil painting Portrait de Louis Guillaume (Rewald, no. 421; coll. National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.). The subject is the son of a neighborhood shoemaker with whom Cézanne was acquainted in Paris; the boy was a close friend of the artist's own son Paul. Gris may have become familiar with the painting while it was in the collection of gallery owner Paul Rosenberg, the brother of his dealer Léonce Rosenberg. Rewald (op. cit., p. 283) believes that Gris made his drawing from a reproduction of the painting.

More from Impressionist and Twentieth Century Works on Paper

View All