Irregular, geometric shapes in burnt orange, pale peach, light blue, forest and mint green, brown, taupe, gray, and black are layered and spread across this horizontal, abstract painting. They are mostly flat planes of color. One shape to our right of center has four rows of rounded rectangles to create a checkboard pattern of sage green against terracotta brown. A wide parchment-brown band divides the checkboard from top to bottom. The artist signed the lower right, “Juan Gris.”
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Glass and Checkerboard

painter Juan Gris (Spanish, 1887 - 1927)

c. 1917

Medium
oil on wood
Classification
Painting
Dimensions
overall: 29.85 × 41.28 cm (11 3/4 × 16 1/4 in.) ; framed: 54.61 × 65.41 × 8.26 cm (21 1/2 × 25 3/4 × 3 1/4 in.)
Culture
Spanish
Museum
National Gallery of Art, CMC
Credit line
Woodner Collection. Gift of Dian Woodner
Rights
Public domain (NGA Open Access, CC0), as the museum states it.
Who can see it
Little Ones profiles and older: it shows gentle subjects for the very young. How works are placed

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