Glass and Checkerboard

c. 1917

Juan Gris

Painter, Spanish, 1887 - 1927

Irregular, geometric shapes in burnt orange, pale peach, light blue, forest and mint green, brown, taupe, gray, and black are layered and spread across this horizontal, abstract painting. They are mostly flat planes of color. One shape to our right of center has four rows of rounded rectangles to create a checkboard pattern of sage green against terracotta brown. A wide parchment-brown band divides the checkboard from top to bottom. The artist signed the lower right, “Juan Gris.”

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    oil on wood

  • Credit Line

    Woodner Collection. Gift of Dian Woodner

  • Dimensions

    overall: 29.85 × 41.28 cm (11 3/4 × 16 1/4 in.)
    framed: 54.61 × 65.41 × 8.26 cm (21 1/2 × 25 3/4 × 3 1/4 in.)

  • Accession

    2017.122.1

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Purchased, possibly in the 1950s, by Ian Woodner [1903-1990], New York; by inheritance to his daughter, Dian Woodner, New York; gift 2017 to NGA.

Associated Names

Inscriptions

lower right: Juan Gris

Wikidata ID

Q58698328

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