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Juan Gris (José Victoriano Gónzalez Pérez)
Madrid, 1887-Boulogne-sur-Seine, 1927
Juan Gris studied at the Escuela de Artes y Oficios in Madrid and in the studio of the painter José Moreno Carbonero, while also working with various publications such as Blanco y Negro and Madrid Cómico. In 1906 he moved to Paris and lived in the Bateau-Lavoir where he met Picasso, Léger and Georges Braque. There he initially earned a living producing illustrations for magazines such as L'Assiette au beurre and Le cri de Paris.
When Gris first exhibited his work in public at the Salon des Indépendents in 1912 he was already working in a fully-fledged Cubist style which had that intellectual approach which was to characterise all his work.
During the summer of 1913 Gris was in Céret at the same time as Picasso. It was there in the French Pyrenees that he began to develop the technique of papier collée.
During the years of World War I Gris worked in Paris, where, in 1919, he had his first solo exhibition at the gallery L'Effort Moderne. In 1922 he moved to Bolougne-sur-Seine where he lived until his premature death in 1927.
Between 1922 and 1924 Gris designed state sets for Serge Diaghilev, including Les Tentations de la bergère and La Colombe. He continued to paint and write theoretical texts on art such as Notes sur ma peinture (1923) and Des possibilités de la peinture (1924).
Cooper, D.: Juan Gris.Catalogue raisonné de l'oeuvre peint. Paris, 1977.
GREEN, CH.: Juan Gris. Exhibition catalogue Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, 1992.
GREEN, CH.: The Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection. The European Avant-gardes. Art in France and Western Europe 1904-c.1945. London, 1995.
Kahnweiler, D.-H.: Juan Gris. Sa vie, son oeuvre, ses écrits. Paris, 1946.
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