Checkerboard and Playing Cards
Paris, 1915 · Gouache, graphite, and resin on cream-colored wove paper, mounted to paperboard
Dimensions : 8 1/4 x 11 3/4 in. (21 x 29.8 cm)
Collection: Metropolitan Museum of Art
Credit Leonard A. Lauder Cubist Collection, Gift of Leonard A. Lauder, 2016
Many Cubist artworks depict dice, game boards, and cards interspersed among bottles of liquor, wineglasses, coffee cups, and newspapers. Gris’s still lifes are not everyday genre scenes, but rather exercises in distillation and design. The patterned checkerboard was one of Gris’s favorite motifs. This gouache is related to a larger painting of the same title in the National Gallery of Australia, Canberra.
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About this artwork
Checkerboard and Playing Cards (Paris, 1915) by Juan Gris, from the Metropolitan Museum of Art collection.
About Juan Gris
José Victoriano (Carmelo Carlos) González-Pérez (23 March 1887 – 11 May 1927), better known as Juan Gris, was a Spanish painter born in Madrid who lived and worked in France most of his life. Closely connected to the innovative artistic genre Cubism, his works are among the movement's most distinctive.
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