
Art Institute of Chicago
The Glass of Beer
Juan Gris · 1914
Provenance
Ownership history
- 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.
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
Exhibitions
Exhibition history
- 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.
Literature
Published references
- 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.
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