Head of a Man with Cigar

Prints and Drawings

c. 1912

Juan Gris
Spanish, 1887-1927

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

A. James Speyer, “Art News from Chicago,” Art News (January, 1956), p. 19 (ill.).

New York, Saidenberg Gallery, “Juan Gris,” May 9–June 24, 1967, n.p., cat. 13 (ill.).
Urbana-Champaign, Ill., Krannert Art Museum, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, “Drawings from the Collections of The Art Institute of Chicago,” April 23–May 14, 1972.
Bielefeld, Germany, Kunsthalle Bielefeld, “Zeichnungen und Collagen des Kubismus: Picasso, Braque, Gris,” March 11–April 29, 1979, n.p., cat. 189 (ill.).
London, Whitechapel Art Gallery, “Juan Gris,” 1992, p. 179, cat. 20 (ill.); traveled to the Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany, December 18, 1992–February 14, 1993; and Otterlo, the Kroller-Muller Museum, March 5–May 1, 1993.

Possibly Maurice Raynal (1884–1954), Paris [erased inscription]. Dr. Wertheimer. Sold by Galerie Roger Ferrero, Geneva, to the AIC, 1955.

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