Still Life (The Tobacco Pouch), Juan Gris, Beaulieu (present-day Beaulieu-les-Loches), 1918


Still Life (The Tobacco Pouch), Beaulieu (present-day Beaulieu-les-Loches), 1918, Graphite on off-white laid paper, 12 × 18 1/2 in. ( × 47 cm), Drawings, Juan Gris (Spanish, Madrid 1887–1927 Boulogne-sur-Seine), Although these still-life objects are the same ones that appear in his prewar collages, here Gris worked in a classicizing style more in tune with wartime sobriety, creating a “new aesthetic based on the intellect,” as he wrote to his dealer Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler


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