Statens Museum for Kunst
Copenhagen, DK

1916

The still life genre emerged as a favored theme among Cubist artists due to its allowance for the portrayal of everyday objects whose forms remained recognizable even after undergoing simplification and stylization. By the time Juan Gris gained recognition as a painter at the Salon des Indépendants in 1912, his work had fully embraced Cubism, imbued with the intellectual depth that would characterize his entire body of work. A year later, Guillaume Apollinaire dedicated a section to Gris in Les Peintres cubistes, lauding him as "the man who has contemplated all things modern."