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Head of a Man with Cigar

A work made of charcoal, with stray white gouache on tan laid paper.

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  • A work made of charcoal, with stray white gouache on tan laid paper.

Date:

c. 1912

Artist:

Juan Gris
Spanish, 1887-1927

About this artwork

Status

Currently Off View

Department

Prints and Drawings

Artist

Juan Gris

Title

Head of a Man with Cigar

Place

Spain (Artist's nationality:)

Date  Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.

Artist's working dates 1907–1917

Medium

Charcoal, with stray white gouache on tan laid paper

Inscriptions

Signed recto, lower left center, in pen and brown ink: "[cut-off JU] an Gris;" inscribed lower left, in charcoal, erased: "A mon cher ami Raynal / Juan Gris"

Dimensions

42.9 × 28 cm (16 15/16 × 11 1/16 in.)

Credit Line

Arthur Heun, John H. Wrenn and William McCallin McKee Memorial Endowment

Reference Number

1955.1024

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