Died 1927-05-11.
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Juan Gris
José Victoriano González-Pérez , better known as Juan Gris, was a Spanish painter born in Madrid who lived and worked in France for most of his active period. Closely connected to the innovative artistic genre Cubism, his works are among the movement's most distinctive.
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Born 23 March 1887 · Died 11 May 1927 · Q151152
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1927· 2 entries
“I always pet a dog with my left hand, because if he bit me, I'd still have my right hand to paint with.”
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1924· 1 entry
Designed ballet sets and costumes for Sergei Diaghilev and the famous Ballets Russes
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1923· 1 entry
And at the Galerie Flechtheim in Düsseldorf in 1925
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1919· 1 entry
And particularly 1920, artists and critics began to write conspicuously about this 'synthetic' approach, and to assert its importance in the overall scheme of advanced Cubism
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1915· 1 entry
Was painted by his friend, Amedeo Modigliani
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1912· 2 entries
Gris exhibited at the Exposició d'art cubista, Galeries Dalmau in Barcelona, the first declared group exhibition of Cubism worldwide; the gallery Der Sturm in Berlin; the Salon de la Société Normande de Peinture Moderne
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Gris met Charlotte Augusta Fernande Herpin (1894–1983), also known as Josette
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1911· 1 entry
(when he gave up working as a satirical cartoonist), developing at this time a personal Cubist style
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1909· 1 entry
Lucie Belin (1891–1942)—Gris' wife—gave birth to Georges Gonzalez-Gris (1909–2003), the artist's only child
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1906· 1 entry
After he sold all his possessions, he moved to Paris and became friends with the poets Guillaume Apollinaire, Max Jacob, and artists Henri Matisse, Georges Braque, Fernand Léger and Jean Metzinger
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1905· 1 entry
That José Victoriano González adopted the more distinctive name Juan Gris
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1887· 1 entry
Born 1887-03-23.
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