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Juan Gris

Juan Gris (1887 - 1927) was active/lived in France, Spain.  Juan Gris is known for Cubist still life painting, graphics.

Juan Gris was born in Madrid, Spain in 1887. His real name was Jose Victoriano Gonzalez and he was the thirteenth child of a Madrid businessman. He had grown up and gone to engineering school, where he was known for doodling caricatures of his professors and fellow students. After a brief apprenticeship as a comic illustrator in Spain, Gris got to Paris in 1906. He installed himself as Picasso's neighbor in Bateau-Lavoir, a ramshackle cluster of studios in Montmartre.

When he moved to Paris at the age of nineteen, he considered himself strictly a graphic artist, an illustrator who contributed drawings to various periodicals. For the next six years, Gris was an observer rather than a participant in the upheavels that permanently changed the course of western art.

Gris began painting watercolors in 1910; the following year he allowed his friends to see his first authorative oils. His output was small and his conduct inconspicuous. From 1912 when he first showed his work,   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 2168 characters.]  Artist bio

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