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We look down onto a pile with a newspaper, theater program, pipe, a black and white checkerboard, and other objects painted as abstracted, geometric forms on a tabletop in this nearly square still life painting. Near the center, a rectangular form like a newspaper is painted with the headline “LE JOURNAL.” Next to it, to our left, a playbill has the name “FANTOMAS” written in black against a parakeet-green background, above black mask and a “65” in a circle below. There are blocks of stylized, painted wood grain and other areas of color that do not line up with the objects represented. For…
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Fantômas

Juan Gris (Spanish, 1887 - 1927)

1915

Medium
oil on canvas
Classification
Painting
Dimensions
overall: 59.8 x 73.3 cm (23 9/16 x 28 7/8 in.) ; framed: 78.7 x 93.3 x 8.8 cm (31 x 36 3/4 x 3 7/16 in.)
Culture
Spanish
Museum
National Gallery of Art, CMC
Credit line
Chester Dale Fund
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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