(Q20540932)

English

Mandolin and Fruit Dish

painting by Juan Gris (MFA, 67.1161)

  • Still Life with a Guitar

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Mandolin and Fruit Dish (English)
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PROVENANCE 1925, Galerie Simon, Paris (stock no. 9011); November 20, 1925, sold by the Galerie Simon to Gottlieb Friedrich Reber (b. 1880 - d. 1959), Lausanne; by 1933, sold by Reber to Paul de Frassari Adamidi Bey (b. 1901/02 - d. mid-1980s), Geneva [see note 1]. 1951, with the Galerie Charpentier, Paris [see note 2]. Galerie Kleinmann, Paris. By 1960, George David Thompson (b. 1899 - d. 1965), Pittsburgh [see note 3]. Silberman Galleries, New York (?) [see note 4]. 1961, Joseph Pulitzer, Jr., St. Louis, MO; 1967, gift of Pulitzer to the MFA. (Accession Date: December 13, 1967) NOTES: [1] Gottlieb Friedrich Reber was an important collector of Cubist art who purchased twenty-eight pictures by Gris at the Galerie Simon on November 20, 1925. He sold this painting to Paul de Frassari Adamidi Bey; see Dorothy Kosinksi, "G. F. Reber: collector of Cubism," Burlington Magazine 133 (August 1991): p. 530. Bey lent the painting to the exhibition "Juan Gris," Kunsthaus, Zurich, April 2-26, 1933, cat. no. 127. [2] According to Douglas Cooper, "Juan Gris, catalogue raisonné de l'oeuvre peint," vol. 2 (Paris, 1977), cat. no. 531, p. 356, the painting was included in the exhibition "Natures Mortes Françaises," Galerie Charpentier, Paris, 1951 (cat. no. 78, "La guitarre," no lender named). (English)
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