Oil paint on canvas
Tate Collection
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<a href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/juan-gris-1221" aria-label="More by Juan Gris" data-gtm-name="header_link_artist" data-gtm-destination="page--artist">Juan Gris</a>
Violin and FruitDish
Purchased 1950
architecture
book - non-specific
carafe
features
fine arts and music
food and drink
fruit - non-specific
fruit, apple
fruit, grape
furnishings
instrument, violin
kitchen
objects
plate
reading, writing, printed matter
sheet music
shutter
table
table cloth
window
<p>A violin and a number of ordinary objects stand on a table set before a shuttered window. The combination of domestic objects, such as the fruit-bowl, knife and glass carafe, with musical instruments was common in earlier Cubist compositions by Gris, Picasso and Braque. In this work Gris presents the objects from a variety of viewpoints, while avoiding the fragmentation that characterises earlier Cubist paintings.</p><p><em>Gallery label, July 2007</em></p>
painting oil paint canvas
21 June 2005 – 21 September 2005
2005-09-21
21 June 2005 – 21 September 2005
2005-09-21
2005-06-21
Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia (Madrid, Spain)
2005-06-21
Juan Gris 1887-1927
Loan-out
1 May 2006 – 15 April 2012
2012-04-15
1 May 2006 – 15 April 2012
2012-04-15
2006-05-01
Tate Modern (London, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/modern/
2006-05-01
States of Flux
Collection based display
Violin and Fruit-Dish
support: 387 × 600 mm
frame: 615 × 825 × 115 mm
Purchased 1950
<p>A violin and a number of ordinary objects stand on a table set before a shuttered window. The combination of domestic objects, such as the fruit-bowl, knife and glass carafe, with musical instruments was common in earlier <a data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/c/cubism" title="Glossary definition for 'Cubism'"><span>Cubist</span></a> compositions by Gris, Picasso and Braque. In this work Gris presents the objects from a variety of viewpoints, while avoiding the fragmentation that characterises earlier Cubist <a data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/p/painting" title="Glossary definition for 'Painting'"><span>paintings</span></a>.</p>

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<strong>Juan Gris</strong> 1887-1927
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<a class="acno-pop" data-gtm-destination="page--artwork" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/gris-violin-and-fruit-dish-n05935" title="View the details of this artwork"><span>N05935</span></a> <strong>Violon et Compotier</strong> (Violin and Fruit-Dish) 1924
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Inscribed 'Juan Gris 24' b.l.<br/>
Oil on canvas, 15 1/4 x 23 5/8 (38.5 x 60)<br/>
Purchased from the Mayor Gallery (Grant-in-Aid) 1950<br/>
<em>Prov:</em> With Galerie Simon, Paris (purchased from the artist); with Galerie Kahnweiler, Frankfurt, and Alfred Flechtheim, Berlin, 1925; with Mayor Gallery, London; Dr Schlossmann, Cambridge, 1936; Gustav Kahnweiler, Cambridge; with Knoedler, London, 1943; Eardley Knollys, London, 1944; Miss Erica Brausen, London; Eric Estorick, London; with Mayor Gallery, London<br/>
<em>Exh:</em> <em>Juan Gris</em>, Kunsthaus, Zurich, April 1933 (122); <em>Works by Juan Gris</em>, Mayor Gallery, London, November 1936 (12); <em>Exhibition on the Theme of Musical Instruments</em>, London Gallery, London, 1937 (15); <em>The Cubist Spirit in its Time</em>, London Gallery, London, March-May 1947 (51)<br/>
<em>Lit:</em> Douglas Cooper (ed.), <em>Letters of Juan Gris (1913-1927)</em> (London 1956), pp.168-9; Douglas Cooper, <em>Juan Gris</em> (Paris 1977), No.469, Vol.2, p.294, repr. p.295<br/>
<em>Repr:</em> <em>Little Review</em>, Autumn 1924-Winter 1925, between pp.16 and 17; <em>Studio</em>, CXLVII, 1954, p.8 and on cover
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Douglas Cooper dates this February-August 1924. It depicts various <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/s/still-life" title="Glossary definition for 'Still life'"><span>still-life</span></a> objects (a violin, a fruit-dish with grapes, an open book, a cloth, a carafe, a quince and a knife) on a table by a window, with part of a shutter on the right.
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<strong>Published in:</strong><br/>
Ronald Alley, <em>Catalogue of the Tate Gallery's Collection of Modern Art other than Works by British Artists</em>, Tate Gallery and Sotheby Parke-Bernet, London 1981, p.340, reproduced p.340


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Catalogue entry
2004-09-14T00:00:00
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architecture book - non-specific carafe features fine arts and music food and drink fruit, apple fruit, grape fruit - non-specific furnishings instrument, violin kitchen objects plate reading, writing, printed matter sheet music shutter table table cloth window