Still Life with a Guitar
Juan Gris, 1913
This still life by Juan Gris, painted in 1913, shows a guitar alongside other everyday objects reduced to overlapping geometric planes. Gris was working within Cubism at the time, and his composition invites viewers to see the subject from several angles at once rather than from a single fixed point. The picture was made in Céret, a small French town in the Pyrenees that drew artists; according to the reference consulted, Picasso visited the town that same year. That closeness to Picasso's circle helps place the painting within the Cubism of those years. The muted palette and fragmented forms blend the guitar into the surrounding space, so the viewer has to reconstruct the scene mentally. Today the painting is held at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, where it can be seen as an example of the synthetic Cubism Gris developed.
- Painter
- Juan Gris
- Date
- 1913
- Medium
- oil paint, canvas
- Dimensions
- 66 × 100 cm
- Museum
- Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City
- Genre
- still life
- Depicts
- still life, guitar
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