Gris [antikvár]

When with the passage of time and a desire for historical accuracy one examines the history of an artistic movement, one realizes that it was fully represented and properly illustrated by at most two or three powerful personalities, while those who surrounded them, as well as those who came after, were often overrated. It is now beyond all possible doubt that Cubism, for example, is truly represented by Braque, Picasso and Juan Gris ; and if the two former were the instigators of the movement, the latter was its most faithful and its most uncompromising champion. José Vittoriano Gonzalez, known as Juan Gris was born in Madrid on the 2 3fd March 1 887. His father was a Castillan and his mother an Andalusian. His childhood was that of the offspring of a well-off business family. His precocious talent for drawing led him in 1902 to the School of Arts and Crafts. He worked for several illustrated papers, and soon went in for painting without giving up his literary and scientific studies. He was nineteen when he decided to leave Madrid where he felt caged in. His father having gone bankrupt, it was with