Violin and Playing Cards on a Table
Juan Gris, 1913
Violin and Playing Cards on a Table is a still life painted by Juan Gris in 1913, when the Spanish-born artist was working within Cubism. Still life was one of the subjects the Cubists favoured, since it allowed them to explore form and space without relying on a narrative scene. Here a table, a violin and playing cards appear as everyday objects broken into overlapping geometric planes. The viewer must mentally reassemble each object from fragments rather than take it in from a single viewpoint. The painting is held by the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and belongs to Gris's early Cubist production, in which the interplay of planes and a restrained palette define his distinctive language.
- Painter
- Juan Gris
- Date
- 1913
- Medium
- oil paint, canvas
- Dimensions
- 100 × 65 cm
- Museum
- Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City
- Movement
- abstract art, cubism
- Depicts
- table, still life, playing card, violin
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