Table at a Café by Juan Gris
Art Institute of Chicago

Table at a Café

Juan Gris · 1912

Provenance

Ownership history

  1. The artist; Daniel­-Henry Kahnweiler (1884–1979), June 1921 [stock no. 6659; letter from Maurice Jardot of Galerie Louise Leiris to Courtney Donnell, Aug. 1976, in curatorial file]; sold, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, June 13–14, 1921, Kahnweiler sequestration sale, lot 55, to “Grassat” for Galerie Simon [Cooper 1977]; consigned to de Hauke and Company, New York, Sept. 6, 1929 [letter from Galerie Simon to De Hauke and Co., Jan. 6, 1930, Jacques Seligmann & Co. Records, Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution; De Hauke & Co., Inc. Records, Box 394, Folder 9, copy in curatorial object file]; sold through De Hauke and Company, New York, to Walter S. Brewster (1872­–1954), Chicago, Apr. 22, 1930 [Bound Stock Catalog, Paintings and Pastels no. 2, 1927-1931, page 26; Jacques Seligmann & Co. Records, Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution; De Hauke & Co., Inc. Records, Box 284, Folder 8, copy in curatorial object file]; bequeathed by his wife, Kate Brewster (1897­–1947) to the Art Institute of Chicago, Jan. 12, 1950.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

Exhibitions

Exhibition history

  • Paris, Galerie Simon, Exposition Rétrospective, Juan Gris, 1887-­1927, June 4–16, 1928, n.p. (cat. 3), as La Table de café, 1912.
  • New York, De Hauke and Company, Exhibition of Cubism (Period 1910–1913), April 1930, n.p. (cat. 25), as La table de café.
  • Chicago, Residence of Mr. and Mrs. Walter Brewster Special View for the benefit of Chicago Public School Art Society of the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Walter S. Brewster, January 20–22, 1933, p. 9 (exhibition checklist 44), as Abstraction in Gray.
  • Chicago, Renaissance Society, University of Chicago, Exhibition of Abstract Paintings by Four Twentieth Century Artists, January 12–February 2, 1934, n.p. (cat. 1), 1911.
  • Possibly Chicago, Arts Club, Loan Exhibition of Modern Paintings and Drawings from Private Collections in Chicago, November 4–25, 1938.
  • Chicago, Arts Club, Retrospective Exhibition, Juan Gris, January 3–27, 1939, n.p. (cat. 1), as La Table du Café, 1911.
  • Chicago, Art Institute, The Kate L. Brewster Bequest, September 1950, no cat.
  • New York, Sidney Janis Gallery, Cubism 1910–1912, January 3–February 4, 1956, n.p. (cat. 14, ill.), as La Table du Café, 1912.
  • New York, Museum of Modern Art, Juan Gris, April 9–June 1, 1958, pp. 15, 17 (ill.), as A Table at a Café, 1912; traveled to Minneapolis, Institute of Arts, June 24–July 24, 1958; San Francisco, Museum of Art, August 11–September 14, 1958; and Los Angeles County Museum, September 29–October 26, 1958.
  • Marseille, Musée Cantini, Juan Gris, Peintures et dessins 1887–1927, September 17, 1998–January 3, 1999, p. 71 (cat. 15, ill.), as La Table de café, 1912.
  • Madrid, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Juan Gris: Paintings and Drawings, 1910–1927, June 22–September 19, 2005, vol. 1, n.p. (cat. 15, ill.); vol. 2, pp. 24 (ill.), 25, as Table at a Café, 1912.
  • Dallas Museum of Art, Cubism in Color: The Still Lives of Juan Gris, Mar. 14 (delayed until Mar. 18)–July 25, 2021, cat. 2; Baltimore Museum of Art, Sept. 12, 2021–Jan. 1, 2022.

Literature

Published references

  • Galerie Simon, Exposition Rétrospective, Juan Gris, 1887­-1927, exh. cat. (Paris: Galerie Simon, 1928), n.p. (cat. 3), as Le Table de café, 1912.
  • Amédée Ozenfant, Art (Paris: Jean Budry, 1929), p. 110 (ill.), as 1911.
  • De Hauke and Company, Exhibition of Cubism (Period 1910–1913), exh. cat. (New York: De Hauke and Company, 1930), n.p. (cat. 25), as La table de café.
  • Nicole R. Meyers and Katherine Rothkopf, eds., with contributions by Anna Katherine Brodbeck, Christine Burger, Harry Cooper, Paloma Esteban Leal, Nicole R. Meyeres, and Katherine Rothkopf, exh. cat. (Dallas: The Dallas Museum of Art; Baltimore: Baltimore Museum of Art, 2021), 50n22, 52n51, 107, 110, cat. 2 (color ill), 172.
  • Waldemar George, Peintres Nouveaux: Juan Gris (Paris: Gallimard, 1931), p. 19 (ill.), as La Table de café, 1913.
  • Renaissance Society, University of Chicago, Exhibition of Abstract Paintings by Four Twentieth Century Artists, exh. cat. (Chicago: Renaissance Society, University of Chicago, 1934), n.p. (cat. 1), as 1911.
  • Arts Club of Chicago, Retrospective Exhibition, Juan Gris, exh. cat. (Chicago: Arts Club, 1939), n.p.(cat. 1), as La Table du Café, 1911.
  • Michel Seuphor, L’art abstrait, ses origins, ses premiers maîtres (Paris: Maeght, 1949), p. 143 (ill.), as Nature Morte au Pyrogène, 1912.
  • Daniel Catton Rich, “The Kate L. Brewster Bequest,” Art Institute of Chicago Bulletin 44, 3 (September 15, 1950), pp. 54, 57 (ill.), as The Café Table, 1912.
  • José Camón Aznar, Picasso y el Cubismo (Madrid: Espasa­Calpe, 1956), p. 201 (fig. 126, ill.), as Le Pyrogène, 1912.
  • Sidney Janis Gallery, Cubism 1910–1912, exh. cat. (New York: Sidney Janis Gallery, 1956), n.p. (cat. 14, ill.), as La Table du Café, 1912.
  • Pictures on Exhibit 19, 5 (February 1956), p. 41 (ill.), as La Table du Café, 1912.

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