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          Juan Gris Most Popular Paintings

          The 25 artworks by Juan Gris our visitors ask for most, ranked by popularity and presented one by one, with the specification and the price of each hand-painted reproduction.

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          Linen canvas · Certificate of authenticity · Delivered worldwide Juan Gris · 1887 – 1927

          Portrait of Madame Josette Gris

          View the most popular artwork of Juan Gris ranked #1: Portrait of Madame Josette Gris
          1916 · original 116 x 73 cm

          Juan Gris’ ‘Portrait of Madame Josette Gris’ (1916) is a groundbreaking Cubist masterpiece. Explore its monochromatic elegance, geometric abstraction & historical significance – a timeless art investment.

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          No. 1 of 409 artworks by Juan Gris
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          Pears and grapes on a table

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          1913 · original 54 x 73 cm

          Explore Juan Gris’s ‘Pears and Grapes,’ a revolutionary Synthetic Cubist masterpiece. Deconstructed forms, vibrant colors, and subtle collage create a dynamic visual language reflecting modern life.

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          No. 2 of 409 artworks by Juan Gris
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          Still Life before an Open Window aka Place Ravignan

          View the most popular artwork of Juan Gris ranked #3: Still Life before an Open Window aka Place Ravignan
          1915 · Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia · original 115 x 89 cm

          Explore Juan Gris’ ‘Still Life before an Open Window’. A masterpiece of Synthetic Cubism featuring geometric abstraction & rich colors. Hand-painted reproductions available.

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          No. 3 of 409 artworks by Juan Gris
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          Breakfast

          View the most popular artwork of Juan Gris ranked #4: Breakfast
          1915

          Explore Juan Gris’ ‘Breakfast,’ a vibrant Synthetic Cubist masterpiece! Discover fragmented forms, bold colors & symbolic depth in this iconic 1915 artwork.

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          No. 4 of 409 artworks by Juan Gris
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          Grapes

          View the most popular artwork of Juan Gris ranked #5: Grapes
          1913 · MOMA - Museum of Modern Art, New York City

          Experience the vibrant geometric fragments of Synthetic Cubism in Juan Gris's 1913 masterpiece Grapes, a stunning still life featuring wine and fruit that invites you to bring this iconic era into your own collection.

          Technique
          Hand-painted oil on linen canvas
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          No. 5 of 409 artworks by Juan Gris
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          Landscape at Beaulieu

          View the most popular artwork of Juan Gris ranked #6: Landscape at Beaulieu
          1918 · Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo

          Landscape at Beaulieu by Juan Gris exemplifies Synthetic Cubism, prioritizing geometric forms and fragmented imagery to depict a rural scene with striking red hues. Created in 1918, it showcases Gris's meticulous technique and aligns with the broader artistic movement of its time. Part of the Kröller-Müller Museum’s collection, this painting represents a pivotal moment in Cubist history.

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          No. 6 of 409 artworks by Juan Gris
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          Guitar on a Table

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          1915 · Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo · original 73 x 92 cm

          Explore Juan Gris's 'Guitar on a Table,' a masterpiece of Synthetic Cubism from 1915. Discover its geometric forms, vibrant colors & artistic significance.

          Technique
          Hand-painted oil on linen canvas
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          No. 7 of 409 artworks by Juan Gris
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          Grapes

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          1916 · Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid · original 47 x 55 cm

          Experience Juan Gris's 'Grapes' (1916) – a vibrant, pointillist masterpiece showcasing his innovative Cubism style. Hand-painted reproduction of this iconic work by a skilled artist.

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          Hand-painted oil on linen canvas
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          No. 8 of 409 artworks by Juan Gris
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          Violin and Guitar

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          1913 · Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid · original 60 x 81 cm

          Explore Juan Gris’s ‘Violin and Guitar’ (1913), a groundbreaking Cubist still life. Geometric forms, cool tones & layered glazes define this iconic piece – a must-see for art collectors.

          Technique
          Hand-painted oil on linen canvas
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          No. 9 of 409 artworks by Juan Gris
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          The Smoker

          View the most popular artwork of Juan Gris ranked #10: The Smoker
          1913 · Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, Madrid · original 130 x 96 cm

          Explore "The Smoker" by Juan Gris – a vibrant Cubist masterpiece depicting a man enjoying a cigarette. Discover its geometric forms, bold colors, and artistic significance at the Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum.

          Technique
          Hand-painted oil on linen canvas
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          No. 10 of 409 artworks by Juan Gris
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          The Open Window

          View the most popular artwork of Juan Gris ranked #11: The Open Window
          1921 · Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid · original 66 cm

          Explore Juan Gris’ ‘The Open Window,’ a stunning Cubist still life showcasing fragmented forms & vibrant colors. A masterpiece of 1921, perfect for art collectors.

          Technique
          Hand-painted oil on linen canvas
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          No. 11 of 409 artworks by Juan Gris
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          Harlequin at a Table

          View the most popular artwork of Juan Gris ranked #12: Harlequin at a Table
          1919 · original 101 x 65 cm

          Experience Synthetic Cubism's geometric brilliance with Juan Gris's 1919 masterpiece, Harlequin at a Table; discover this modern art icon for your collection.

          Technique
          Hand-painted oil on linen canvas
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          No. 12 of 409 artworks by Juan Gris
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          Still Life with Flowers

          View the most popular artwork of Juan Gris ranked #13: Still Life with Flowers
          1912 · MOMA - Museum of Modern Art, New York City · original 112 x 70 cm

          Explore Juan Gris’s groundbreaking Analytical Cubism masterpiece—Still Life with Flowers—a vibrant depiction of everyday objects rendered in geometric forms and earthy hues. Admire this iconic 1912 artwork and discover exquisite hand-painted reproductions at WahooArt.

          Technique
          Hand-painted oil on linen canvas
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          No. 13 of 409 artworks by Juan Gris
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          Glass and Ace of Clubs

          View the most popular artwork of Juan Gris ranked #14: Glass and Ace of Clubs
          1917 · Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv · original 41 x 27 cm

          Juan Gris’s “Glass and Ace of Clubs,” completed in 1917, stands as an emblem of early Cubist innovation—a testament to Picasso and Braque's groundbreaking exploration of fractured perspectives and simultaneous representation. This painting exemplifies Analytical Cubism, dissecting objects into geometric planes while symbolizing clarity and ambition.

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          Hand-painted oil on linen canvas
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          No. 14 of 409 artworks by Juan Gris
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          Harlequin with Guitar

          View the most popular artwork of Juan Gris ranked #15: Harlequin with Guitar
          1919

          Experience the vibrant geometric complexity of Juan Gris's 1919 masterpiece Harlequin with Guitar, a defining work of Synthetic Cubism that invites you to bring this iconic piece of modern art history into your collection.

          Technique
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          No. 15 of 409 artworks by Juan Gris
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          Still Life with a Guitar

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          1913 · Metropolitan Museum of Art, new york · original 66 x 100 cm

          Inspired by Fantômas and Pablo Picasso’s approach to art, Gris utilized mathematical concepts to inform his compositions. This painting reflects the broader 'return to order' movement following World War I and solidified Gris's position as a pivotal figure in early 20th-century artistic expression.

          Technique
          Hand-painted oil on linen canvas
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          No. 16 of 409 artworks by Juan Gris
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          The fruit bowl

          View the most popular artwork of Juan Gris ranked #17: The fruit bowl
          1914 · Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo

          Juan Gris' 'The Fruit Bowl' (1914) is a revolutionary Cubist masterpiece blending reality and abstraction with newspaper collage, showcasing geometric forms & vibrant colors.

          Technique
          Hand-painted oil on linen canvas
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          No. 17 of 409 artworks by Juan Gris
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          Glass and Water Bottle

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          1917 · Ohara Museum of Art, Kurashiki · original 32 x 54 cm

          Explore Juan Gris’s 1917 Cubist masterpiece, ‘Glass and Water Bottle.’ Geometric abstraction, muted tones & a flattened perspective – a unique insight into early 20th-century art.

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          Hand-painted oil on linen canvas
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          No. 18 of 409 artworks by Juan Gris
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          Pipe and Fruit Dish with Grapes

          View the most popular artwork of Juan Gris ranked #19: Pipe and Fruit Dish with Grapes
          1918 · Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo · original 61 x 38 cm

          Dive into Synthetic Cubism with Juan Gris’s iconic ‘Pipe and Fruit Dish,’ exploring geometric shapes & muted colors in this 1918 masterpiece housed at Kröller-Müller Museum.

          Technique
          Hand-painted oil on linen canvas
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          No. 19 of 409 artworks by Juan Gris
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          Portrait of Josette Gris

          View the most popular artwork of Juan Gris ranked #20: Portrait of Josette Gris
          1916 · Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid · original 97 x 140 cm

          Juan Gris’ "Portrait of Josette Gris" (1916) is a fragmented masterpiece of Analytical Cubism. Explore its geometric forms, muted tones & challenging perspective – a key work reflecting modern consciousness.

          Technique
          Hand-painted oil on linen canvas
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          No. 20 of 409 artworks by Juan Gris
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          Guitar with inlays

          View the most popular artwork of Juan Gris ranked #21: Guitar with inlays
          1925 · Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid · original 92 x 73 cm

          Explore Juan Gris’ ‘Guitar with Inlays,’ a masterpiece of Synthetic Cubism! Admire its geometric abstraction, muted colors & surreal composition. A unique 1925 artwork.

          Technique
          Hand-painted oil on linen canvas
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          No. 21 of 409 artworks by Juan Gris
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          Guitar on a table

          View the most popular artwork of Juan Gris ranked #22: Guitar on a table
          1915 · Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo · original 92 x 73 cm

          Juan Gris’s "Guitar on a Table" (1915) is a stunning example of Synthetic Cubism featuring a guitar and books arranged in geometric forms. Explore this iconic work by the Spanish visionary and bring home a piece of art history.

          Technique
          Hand-painted oil on linen canvas
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          No. 22 of 409 artworks by Juan Gris
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          Coffee Grinder

          View the most popular artwork of Juan Gris ranked #23: Coffee Grinder
          1920 · Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid · original 81 x 60 cm

          Juan Gris' 'Coffee Grinder & Glass' is a captivating Cubist masterpiece! Explore fragmented forms, vibrant colors, and innovative collage techniques in this iconic work by the Spanish visionary.

          Technique
          Hand-painted oil on linen canvas
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          No. 23 of 409 artworks by Juan Gris
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          View across the Bay

          View the most popular artwork of Juan Gris ranked #24: View across the Bay
          1921 · Centre Pompidou, Paris · original 65 x 100 cm

          Explore Juan Gris's 'View Across the Bay' (1921), a stunning Synthetic Cubist masterpiece showcasing geometric forms, vibrant colors, and a unique blend of indoor & outdoor scenes.

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          The Bottle of Anís del Mono

          View the most popular artwork of Juan Gris ranked #25: The Bottle of Anís del Mono
          1914 · Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid · original 24 x 41 cm

          Juan Gris's 'The Bottle of Anís del Mono' (1914) is a Cubist masterpiece blending everyday life with political commentary, featuring a striking collage of newspaper clippings and symbolic elements.

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          No. 25 of 409 artworks by Juan Gris
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          The artist

          Juan Gris

          1887 – 1927

          Portrait of Juan Gris
          Quick facts
          • Top-ranked workPortrait of Madame Josette Gris
          • Corpus themesgeometric abstraction, picasso, braque, analytical cubism, cubist fragmentation
          • Room fitliving room
          • Mediumsoil on canvas
          • Creative periodsmature period
          • Vibemodern, calm
          • Also known asJosé Victoriano González-Pérez, José Victoriano Carmelo Carlos González-Pérez, Juan Gris José Victoriano González Pérez, José Victoriano Carmelo Carlos González Pérez, José Victoriano González Pérez
          • Works on APS409
          Biography

          Early Life, Family and Training

          Born José Victoriano González-Pérez on March 23, 1887, in Madrid, Spain, the man who would become known as Juan Gris grew up in a large, busy household. He was the thirteenth of fourteen children. His father, Gregorio Gonzalez, was a prosperous businessman, and the family environment provided a stable foundation during his formative years in the Spanish capital.

          His early education took a technical turn at the Madrid School of Arts and Sciences, where he studied engineering. This period of study instilled a sense of structural logic that would later surface in his visual work. While his focus was on the mechanics of design, a creative impulse was already present. Between 1904 and 1905, he began to formalize his artistic training by studying painting under the academic artist José Moreno Carbonero. This brief but significant period of instruction helped bridge the gap between his technical studies and his developing visual language.

          By 1905, a shift in identity occurred when he adopted the name Juan Gris. This change marked a departure from his origins as José Victoriano González-Pérez and signaled a new direction for his life. He moved away from the rigid requirements of engineering toward the more fluid, though no less structured, world of visual representation.

          The Parisian Awakening and Cubism

          The move to Paris in 1906 changed the direction of his life. By 1909, he was living in the Bateau-Lavoir at 13 Rue Ravignan. This was a place of constant movement and shared spaces. He spent those years working as a satirical cartoonist, but the shift toward painting began in earnest around 1911. He left the world of illustration behind to focus on the canvas, seeking a more structured way to see the objects around him.

          His presence in the Parisian art scene became official in 1912. He showed his work for the first time at the Salon des Indépendants that year. This was a period of rapid development, as he moved away from the expressive qualities of Fauvism toward the fragmented logic of Cubism. His work reached beyond France, appearing at the Exposició d'art cubista at the Galeries Dalmau in Barcelona. By 1912, he had also signed a contract with Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler, a move that solidified his place within the circle of artists redefining pictorial space.

          Technique and Artistic Style

          There is a certain mathematical logic to how he builds a canvas. His background in engineering shows in the way he handles geometric shapes and fragmented forms, treating the composition with a quiet, calculated precision. He does not simply break an object apart; he reconstructs it through a series of intersecting planes. In many of his works, he moves away from the chaotic, shattering abstraction seen in earlier Cubism, opting instead for a more organized and legible structure. This clarity often comes through a disciplined palette of grays, blacks, and whites, which forces the eye to focus on the weight and placement of each shape.

          His hands were particularly skilled at working with the textures of everyday life. He was a virtuoso with materials that most would overlook, incorporating newspaper, wallpaper, and other commercially printed or found objects directly into his compositions. He had a specific way of handling these pieces, using black media at the intersections of various papers to disguise the seams. This technique allowed him to create the illusion of seamlessness, making the different layers appear as a single, unified surface rather than a collection of scraps. He would even carefully line up patterns in printed paper to ensure the edges disappeared into the work.

          Key Works and Masterpieces

          In 1914, the work Flowers emerged, alongside The Sunblind, showing a focus on how light and objects occupy a space. By June 1915, the composition Still Life before an Open Window, Place Ravignan was finished. This piece uses intersecting planes to build a sense of depth, pulling the viewer into a structured, quiet scene. The way the shapes overlap creates a specific kind of order, where the window and the objects within it are reconstructed through a series of sharp, geometric angles.

          The years that followed saw a shift toward more personal subjects and complex textures. In October 1916, the Portrait of Josette Gris was painted, capturing a subject through a disciplined, almost monochromatic lens. This approach strips away unnecessary detail to focus on the rhythm of the lines. Later, in 1919, Harlequin at a Table brought a different energy to the canvas, using the fragmented language of the movement to organize the scene. Toward the end of his life, around 1927, Guitar and Music Paper was created, a work that relies on the interplay of simple forms and the tactile suggestion of paper.

          • Still Life before an Open Window, Place Ravignan (1915)
          • Flowers (1914)
          • The Sunblind (1914)
          • Portrait of Josette Gris (1916)
          • Harlequin at a Table (1919)
          • Guitar and Music Paper (about 1927)

          Circle, Rivals and Influences

          Gris moved through the tight-knit circles of the Parisian avant-garde, a world of shared ideas and shifting perspectives. His work grew from the foundations laid by Paul Cézanne, specifically the way the older painter explored the underlying structure of form and space. This intellectual approach allowed Gris to find his own footing alongside the movement's primary innovators. He was one of the three leading figures of Cubism, working in the same orbit as Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque. While he looked to them for direction, his path was not a simple imitation. He brought a mathematical precision to the canvas that felt distinct from the more intuitive experiments of his peers.

          The relationships within this circle were often complicated. Although he was deeply influenced by Picasso, there was a palpable tension between them. One observer noted that Gris was the only person Picasso wished away, a detail that speaks to the competitive and intense nature of the era. Despite this, Gris remained a central part of the development of the genre, helping to push Cubism from its early analytical stages into the more structured, synthetic compositions that defined the later years. He did not merely follow the lead of others; he helped steer the movement toward a more organized, readable logic.

          Legacy and Lasting Influence

          Juan Gris did more than follow the paths cleared by others. While he built upon the foundations of early Cubism, he steered the movement in new directions, moving away from the shattering abstraction of his peers. His paintings possess a bold, graphic look that makes them immediately distinguishable from the works of Picasso and Braque. There is a specific, calculated clarity in how he handles a composition, a quality that stems from his earlier studies in engineering. He did not merely break objects apart; he reassembled them with a sense of order and structural logic.

          His influence is felt in the way he transitioned the movement from the analytical phase toward a more synthetic approach. By incorporating textures and patterns, he helped define a way of seeing that emphasized the flatness of the canvas rather than the illusion of deep space. This method turned the act of painting into a precise arrangement of geometric planes and color. His work remains a study in how to balance fragmentation with a sense of cohesive design.

          • Homage à Pablo Picasso (1912)
          • Still Life before an Open Window (1915)
          • Guitar with inlays (1925)

          Where to See the Works Today

          Tracing the physical presence of his work requires a trip through several major collections. In Madrid, the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía holds thirteen of his pieces, providing a significant look at his development. The Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum in the same city maintains two works. These Spanish collections offer a way to see how his roots in Madrid eventually transitioned into the radical structures of his later years.

          Much of his output remains in France, reflecting the years he spent in Paris. The Centre Pompidou holds four works, while the Kröller-Müller Museum in Otterlo contains nine. These pieces often show the way he layered paper and paint to create depth. You can find his experiments with texture and color in these halls, where the sharp edges of his geometric forms are preserved.

          Across the Atlantic, the Philadelphia Museum of Art keeps three works. Seeing his paintings in these different settings reveals how his approach to space and light changed depending on the materials he chose to use. Some of these works are quite large, while others focus on the quiet arrangement of everyday objects.

          • Still Life with Flowers (1912)
          • The Bottle of Anís del Mono (1914)
          • Guitar in front of the sea (1925)
          • Portrait of Madame Josette Gris (1916)
          • The Checkerboard (1915)

          Questions & Answers

          How many artworks by Juan Gris are available to browse?

          You can browse 409 artworks by Juan Gris on the All Artworks page.

          Can I browse Juan Gris's works by movement?

          The movements Juan Gris worked in can be seen on the artist's All Movements page, which groups the artworks by movement.

          Where are Juan Gris's artworks mapped by subject?

          Juan Gris's works can be explored by subject on the artist's Subject Atlas page.

          By the WahooArt.com Editorial Team Updated Oct. 12, 2026
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