The Glass of Beer

1914

Juan Gris
Spanish, 1887-1927

Status: On View, Gallery 391
Department: Modern Art

Artist: Juan Gris
Title: The Glass of Beer
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.: 1914
Medium: Oil, pasted papers, charcoal, pencil and ink on canvas
Inscriptions: none
Dimensions: 54 × 72.4 cm (21 1/4 × 28 1/2 in.)
Credit Line: Bequest of Florene May Schoenborn
Reference Number: 1997.544

Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler, Juan Gris: sa vie, son oeuvre, ses écrits (Paris: Gallimard, 1946), n.p., pl. 12 (ill.), 339, as La chope, 1914.
E.L.T. Mesens and Robert Melville, The Cubist Spirit in Its Time, exh. cat. (London: London Gallery, 1947), 27, cat. 35 as La Chope.
G. S. Whittet, “Rold, Browse & Delbanco,” Studio 145, 718 (Jan. 1953), 22 (ill.), as La chope.
James Thrall Soby, Juan Gris, exh. cat. (New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1958), 41 (ill.), as Still Life with Glass of Beer, 1914.
Museum of Modern Art, The School of Paris: Paintings from the Florene May Schoenborn and Samuel A. Marx Collection, exh. cat. (New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1965), 38 (ill.), 39, as Still Life with Glass of Beer, 1914.
Juan Antonio Gaya-Nuño, Juan Gris (Barcelona: Ediciones Polígrafa, 1974), 47, no. 69 (ill.), 104, 240, as El vaso de cerveza, 1914.
Douglas Cooper, Juan Gris: catalogue raisonné de l’œuvre peint (Paris: Berggruen, 1977), 132, cat. 80, 133 (ill.), as La chope (The Glass of Beer), Feb.–Apr. 1914.
Gary Tinterow, Juan Gris [1887-1927], exh. cat. (Madrid: Ministerios de Cultura, 1985), 29, fig. 7 (ill.), as Jarra de Cerveza, 1914.
Emily Braun and Elizabeth Cowling, with essay by Claire Le Thomas and Rachel Mustalish, Cubism and the Trompe L’Oeil Tradition, exh. cat. (New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2022) 44, 74, fig. 62 (detail, color ill.), 144, 153, pl. 52 (color ill.), 245.

London, London Gallery, The Cubist Spirit in Its Time, Mar. 18–May 3, 1947 cat. 35,, as La Chope.
New York, Museum of Modern Art, Juan Gris, Apr. 9–June 1, 1958 no cat. no.; Minneapolis, Institute of Arts, June 24–July 24, 1958; San Francisco, Museum of Art, Aug. 11–Sept. 14, 1958; Los Angeles County Museum, Sept. 29–Oct. 26, 1958, as Still Life with Glass of Beer, 1914.
New York, Museum of Modern Art, The School of Paris: Paintings from the Florene May Schoenborn and Samuel A. Marx Collection, Nov. 1, 1965–Jan. 2, 1966, no cat. no.; The Art Institute of Chicago, Feb. 11–Mar. 27, 1966; St. Louis, City Art Museum, Apr. 27–June 13, 1966; Mexico City, Museo de Arte Moderno, July 2–Aug. 7, 1966; San Francisco, Museum of Art, Sept. 2–Oct. 2, 1966, as Still Life with Glass of Beer, 1914.
New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Cubism and the Trompe l’Oeil Tradition, Oct. 20, 2022–Jan. 22, 2023, pl. 52.

Galerie Kahnweiler, Paris, by 1917 [this and the following according to Cooper 1977]. Galerie Simon, Paris, after 1920. Pierre Faure, Paris [label on stretcher], after 1920. Galerie Simon, Paris, before 1941. Sir Kenneth Clark (1903–1983), London, by 1946 [Kahnweiler 1946]. Roland, Browse & Delbanco, London [label on stretcher], by 1949. Perls Galleries, New York, by 1949. Florene May Schoenborn (1903–1995) and Samuel A. Marx (1885–1964), Chicago and New York, 1949 [New York 1965, master checklist, copy in curatorial file]; bequeathed by Florene May Schoenborn to the Art Institute, Oct. 31, 1997.

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