Volume 40, Number 3 · January 28, 1993
Living Still Life
By John Golding
Juan Gris Press
by Christopher Green, with contributions by Christian Derouet, by Karin von Maur
Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, in association with Yale University, 311 pp., $50.00
Juan Gris 18–November 29, 1992; the Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, December 18, 1992–February 14, 1993; the Rijksmuseum Kröller–Müller, Otterlo, March 6–May 2, 1993
an exhibition at the Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, September
When Gertrude Stein wrote that 'painting in the nineteenth century was done only in France by Frenchmen, apart from that painting did not exist, in the twentieth century it was done in France but by Spaniards,' she was paying tribute to both Picasso and Juan Gris. She appears to have found Braque a bit boring and did not collect his work; and for reasons best known to herself she cherished the belief that Americans and Spaniards were brothers and sisters under the skin.
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