Juan Gris & Léonce Rosenberg: a Painter and his Dealer in Wartime

Published on 11 December 2020, by Agathe Albi-Gervy

Auction on 21 December 2020 - 14:00 (CET) - 34, avenue Matignon - 75008 Paris

In this still life from the middle of the First World War, we can see the new directions taken by the Cubist artist. His dealer and close friend Léonce Rosenberg, to whom it belonged, played a fundamental role in his work.

Juan Gris (1887-1927), Compotier et verre (Still Life with Compotier and Glass),... Juan Gris & Léonce Rosenberg: a Painter and his Dealer in Wartime

Juan Gris (1887-1927), Compotier et verre (Still Life with Compotier and Glass), 1916, oil on panel, 61 x 38 cm/approx. 24 x 15 in.
Estimate: 2/2,2 M€

In 1916, the Great War was only halfway through, and became bogged down in the mud of the trenches, just like the morale of the French people. Juan Gris (1887-1927), the youngest of the Cubists, avoided the Front as a foreigner, but his daily life was a mixture of fear and anxiety: fear for mobilized Cubist comrades like Braque and Léger, and anxiety at seeing no end to the…

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