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The Coffee Mill

The Coffee Mill

1916
(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.
  • (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
  • 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
  • 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).
    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).
    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).
    Juan Gris (1887-1927). Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina SofÍa, Madrid, Spain (organizer) (June 21-September 21, 2005).
    Year in Review: 1980. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (June 24-July 19, 1981).
    Juan Gris. Orangerie des Tuileries, Paris, France (March 14–July 1,1974); Kunsthalle, Baden-Baden, Germany (July 20–September 29, 1974).
    Nature Morte, Private Collection, Paris. Paris, France.
    Juan Gris Retrospective. Marlborough Fine Art Ltd., London, United Kingdom (February–March 1958).
    Gris, Braque, Picasso. Kunsthalle, Berne, Switzerland (April 1948).
    Juan Gris. Kunsthalle Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland (April 2–26, 1933).
  • {{cite web|title=The Coffee Mill |url=false|author=Juan Gris|year=1916|access-date=19 April 2024|publisher=Cleveland Museum of Art}}

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