Gris, Juan

The Painter's Window


1925 (110 Kb); Oil on canvas, 100 x 81 cm (39 3/8 x 31 7/8 in); The Baltimore Museum of Art, Maryland (DC 543)

In The Painter's Window, Gris collected some of his favorite motifs: the palette, guitar, pipe, fruit, and playing cards. These symbols of the senses appear before an open window. But instead of the opening unveiling a tempting, sought-after world, it simply juxtaposes the other side of the interior-exterior relationship.


© 18 Sep 1995, Nicolas Pioch - Top - Up - Info

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