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Find the white outline of a goblet floating over the papers, then compare the painted wood grain with the gray checkerboard in the lower right corner.
Gris signed this still life and dated it 8-1915, August 1915, and the Paris dealer Léonce Rosenberg bought it from him that year. On a table lie a pipe, a newspaper headed LE JOURNAL and a green playbill lettered FANTOMAS, with a black mask. The wood grain is painted, not glued on, and thin white outlines of a goblet and a bowl of fruit float over everything.
oil on canvas · overall: 59.8 x 73.3 cm · National Gallery of Art · Cubism
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Details and source
- Museum title
- Fantômas
- Artist
- Juan Gris Spanish, 1887 - 1927
- Date
- 1915
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- overall: 59.8 x 73.3 cm (23 9/16 x 28 7/8 in.) framed: 78.7 x 93.3 x 8.8 cm (31 x 36 3/4 x 3 7/16 in.)
- Credit line
- Chester Dale Fund
- Image license
- CC0 1.0 · Public domain
- Museum record
- National Gallery of Art
Galler’s rooms and hanging scale are imagined. The image is the museum’s original digital reproduction.