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Juan Gris
Spanish, active in France, 1887-1927
Le Canigou, 1921
oil on canvas
support: 25 1/2 x 39 1/2 inches (64.77 x 100.33 cm); framed: 34 3/4 x 48 5/8 x 2 7/8 inches (88.26 x 123.51 x 7.3 cm)
Collection Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York
Room of Contemporary Art Fund, 1947
RCA1947:5
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collection Gottlieb Friedrich Reber, Lausanne, Switzerland;Buchholz Gallery, New York;
sold to the Albright Art Gallery, October 20, 1947
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Information may change due to ongoing research.Glossary of Terms
This painting depicts the view from Juan Gris’s hotel window in the small town of Céret, in the Pyrenees; Le Canigou is one of the range’s highest peaks. He painted numerous still life images that include open windows in order to integrate near and far space within a composition. For Gris, interior scenes represented the human psyche while exterior ones embodied the more corporeal aspects of living. Paintings like Le Canigou symbolize the union of these two worlds.
Label from Picasso: The Artist and His Models, November 5, 2016–February 19, 2017
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