The Cleveland Museum of Art

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The Coffee Mill

1916

Juan Gris

(Spanish, 1887–1927)

Spain, 20th century

Oil on canvas

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.)

Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund 1980.8

Location

223 20th Century Avant-Garde

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.

Inscriptions

Inscription

Signed and dated in lower left: "Juan Gris 5-16 "

Provenance
(Galerie Léonce Rosenberg, Paris, France, inventory no. 5165)
Dr. C. Huet, Paris, France
Collection Mlle. Rose Valland [1898-1980] Paris, France
1920-1940
(D.H. Kahnweiler- under name Galerie Simon from 1920-1940), Kahnweiler inventory no. 01690)
(Galerie Jeanne Bucher, Paris, France)
Henri Hoppenot [1891-1977] Paris, France
1976
(Palais Galliera, Paris, France, December 7. 1976, no. 28, sold to Lauvin, Guilloux, Buffetaud Tailleur
(Galerie Angora, Paris, France)
(Berggruen & Cie, Paris, France)
1980
(Stephen Hahn Gallery. New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)
1980-
The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
Citations
Gris, Juan, and Christian Derouet. Correspondances avec Léonce Rosenberg, 1915-1927. Paris: Centre Georges Pompidou, 1999. Mentioned: P. 25, no. 29
Peters, Hans Albert, and Douglas Cooper. Juan Gris. Baden-Baden: Die Kunsthalle, 1974. Mentioned and reproduced: Cat. no. 38
Juan Gris. [Exposition] Orangerie des Tuileries, 14 mars - 1er juillet 1974. [Paris]: [Éditions des Musées Nationaux], 1974. Mentioned: P. 51; Mentioned and reproduced: P. 91, no. 51
Mayer, E. "Paintings." International Auction Records Vol. XI (1977): 529-1168. Mentioned and reproduced: P. 761
Henning, Edward B. "Two New Cubist Paintings by Juan Gris and Pablo Picasso." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 68, no. 2 (1981): 39-50. Mentioned: P. 44, 47; Reproduced: P. 45, fig. 14 www.jstor.org
Esteban Leal, Paloma. Juan Gris: Paintings and Drawings, 1910-1927. Madrid: Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, 2005. Reproduced: Vol. I, no. 62; Mentioned and reproduced: Vol. II, P. 80-81, no. 62
Cooper, Douglas, Margaret Potter, Alan Hyman, and Elizabeth Snowden. Juan Gris: Catalogue Raisonné de l'Oeuvre Peint: Catalogue Raisonné of the Paintings. San Francisco: Alan Wofsy Fine Arts, 2014. Mentioned and reproduced: P. 294-295, cat. no. 168
Myers, Nicole R., and Katherine Rothkopf, eds. Cubism in Color: The Still Lifes of Juan Gris. [Dallas, Texas]: The Dallas Museum of Art; [Baltimore, Maryland]: The Baltimore Museum of Art, 2021. Reproduced: P. 143
Exhibition history

Juan Gris. Kunsthalle Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland (April 2-26, 1933).

Gris, Braque, Picasso. Kunsthalle, Berne, Switzerland (April 1948).

Juan Gris Retrospective. Marlborough Fine Art Ltd., London, United Kingdom (February-March 1958).

Nature Morte, Private Collection, Paris. Paris, France.
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Juan Gris. Orangerie des Tuileries, Paris, France (March 14-July 1,1974).

Juan Gris. Kunsthalle, Baden-Baden, Germany (July 20-September 29, 1974).

Year in Review: 1980. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (June 24-July 19, 1981).

Juan Gris (1887-1927). Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina SofÍa, Madrid, Spain (organizer) (June 21-September 21, 2005).

Picasso to Plensa: A Century of Art from Spain. The Albuquerque Museum, Albuquerque, NM (organizer) (December 18, 2005-April 16, 2006); Salvador Dalí Museum, St. Petersburg, FL (May 5-July 30, 2006).

Monet to Dalí: Modern Masters from the Cleveland Museum of Art. Seoul Art Center, South Korea (December 22, 2006-March 28, 2007); Seoul Olympic Museum of Art, South Korea (April 7-May 20, 2007); Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada (June 9-September 16, 2007); The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 21, 2007-January 13, 2008); Frist Art Museum, Nashville, TN (February 15-June 1, 2008); Utah Museum of Fine Arts, Salt Lake City, UT (June 22-September 21, 2008); The Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI (October 12, 2008-January 18, 2009).

Cubism in Color: The Still Lifes of Juan Gris. The Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX (organizer) (March 14-July 25, 2021) https://dma.org/art/exhibitions/cubism-color-still-lifes-juan-gris; The Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD (September 12, 2021-January 9, 2022).

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