Juan GrisSpagna, 1887–1927The Coffee Mill
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Cleveland Museum of Art
Cleveland, Stati Uniti
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- 19 ago 2026
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About the painting
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.
Cleveland Museum of Art
Scheda
- Numero di inventario
- 1980.8
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- Cleveland Museum of Art: the museum's own open data · acquisita 6 giorni fa
- Immagine: Wikimedia Commons — Public domain
Nel frattempo, nella vita di Juan Gris
Tutta la vita1910s–1920s
The pupil Picasso “wished away”
Gris regarded Picasso as a teacher, but according to Gertrude Stein in The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas, Picasso treated him with undisguised irritation: Gris was the only person Picasso wished away. At first Gris was spoken of only as Picasso’s follower, but when he became an independent artist and one of the leaders of Cubism, Picasso grew jealous.
1913–1918
From Analytical to Synthetic Cubism
At first Gris painted in the style of Analytical Cubism, a term he himself later coined; after 1913 he converted to Synthetic Cubism, making extensive use of papier collé, or collage, an evolution that ran through 1914–1918. Unlike Picasso and Braque, whose Cubist works were practically monochromatic, he painted in bright harmonious colours in daring, novel combinations, in the manner of his friend Matisse.
1915
Modigliani paints Gris’s portrait
In 1915 his friend Amedeo Modigliani painted his portrait.
