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The Coffee Mill

1916

Juan Gris

(Spanish, 1887–1927)
Culture
Spain, 20th century
Medium
oil on canvas
Measurements
Framed: 74.6 x 57.6 x 7 cm (29 3/8 x 22 11/16 x 2 3/4 in.); Unframed: 55 x 38 cm (21 5/8 x 14 15/16 in.)
Credit Line
Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund 1980.8
Copyright
Copyright
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Location
Not on view
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Description

A member of Picasso's intimate circle, Gris began painting austere Cubist compositions around 1910. After 1915, his compositions became more complex and his colors richer. This painting features a coffee mill, a bottle, and a wine glass on a table covered with a green cloth. The simulated wood-grain pattern on the coffee mill's base, perhaps inspired by Picasso's collage constructions, adds textural variety to this arrangement of fragmented and flattened geometric shapes.
Vertically oriented geometric oil painting depicting a highly abstracted coffee mill, bottle, and wine glass. They cluster on a dark green table cloth over a red-brown table which is angled towards us. The coffee mill has a wood-grain patterned base with a faint, white outline of a crank on grey above it. The angular narrow-necked bottle and squat wine glass fracture into white, greys, and blacks with touches of teal blue and dark green.

The Coffee Mill

1916

Juan Gris

(Spanish, 1887–1927)
Spain, 20th century

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