Mandolin and Pipe

Juan Gris, Spanish, 1887 - 1927

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1925

Oil on canvas

Overall: 24 × 29 in. (61 × 73.6 cm)

Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Ruth M. and Charles R. Lachman

P.959.128

Geography

Place Made: Spain, Europe

Period

20th century

Object Name

Painting

Research Area

Nazi-Era Provenance Research

Painting

Not on view

Inscriptions

Signed, and dated, lower left: Juan Gris / 25; inscribed, in graphite, on stretcher: [---]June 3, Salon; label on reverse: Galerie Simon, Paris #5655; stamped, on reverse: [in circle] DUANE / PARIS / CENTRALE

Label

Juan Gris’s Mandolin and Pipe stands out from many other Cubist paintings for its legibility—we easily recognize the subjects identified in the title. Though fragmented, they have a tangible reality in the painting while also appearing faceted and visible from multiple vantage points. Gris also used relatively bright colors that support the composition as an arrangement of forms describing the subjects.

Though executed only two years before the artist’s death, Mandolin and Pipe emerged from a critical and productive period in Gris’s life. He had been an early and expert interpreter of Picasso and Braque’s pioneering Cubist style, especially the use of collage as a technique and a “look.” By the 1920s he was the chief proponent of the style, discussing it in a clear manner and becoming its unofficial spokesperson. In 1924 he both delivered a seminal lecture on modern painting at the Sorbonne (that was soon published) and designed the sets and costumes for a major production of the Ballets Russes under the direction of Sergei Diaghilev.


From the 2019 exhibition Cubism and Its Aftershocks, curated by John R. Stomberg Ph.D, Virginia Rice Kelsey 1961s Director

Course History

ENGL 72, Woolfenstein, Barbara Will, Fall 2012

SART 25, SART 31, SART 72, Painting I, II, III, Thomas Ferrara, Winter 2012

ARTH 16.2, Picasso: The Vollard Suite, Michael R. Taylor, Fall 2013

THEA 90, Contemporary Practices in U.S. Theater, Laurie Cherba Kohn, Fall 2013

WRIT 5, The Waste Land, Before and After, Melissa Zeiger, Fall 2013

SART 25, Painting I, Esme Thompson, Fall 2014

SART 25.01, Painting I, Esme Thompson, Fall 2019

SART 25.01, Painting I, Danielle Genadry, Summer 2022

Studio Art 25.01, Painting I, Daniele Genadry, Summer 2023

Exhibition History

20th Century Masters from the Permanent Collection, Barrows Windows, Hopkins Center Art Galleries, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, February 3-March 5, 1978.

Churchill P. Lathrop at Dartmouth 1928-1978, Strauss and Barrows Galleries, Hopkins Center Art Galleries, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, October 20-November 26, 1978.

Churchill P. Lathrop Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, January 7, 1997-February 16, 1997.

Churchill P. Lathrop Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, October 10-December 5, 1994.

Cubism and Its Affinities, Strauss and Barrows Galleries, Hopkins Center Art Galleries, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, July 9-September 5, 1976.

Cubism and Its Aftershocks, Citrin Family Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, January 26, 2019-February 16, 2020.

Cubism and its Influence, Barrows Print Room, Hopkins Center Art Galleries, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, February 17-March 30, 1975.

Cubism and Its Legacy, Churchill P. Lathrop Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, August 17-December 20, 2013.

Cubism: From Advanced Art History Seminar to Museum Installation, Ivan Albright Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, June 28, 2004-February 20, 2005.

Cubist Art, Barrows Windows, Hopkins Center Art Galleries, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, February 4-March 20, 1977.

Director's Choice, Jaffe-Friede Gallery, Hopkins Center Art Galleries, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, June 10-July 10, 1966.

Early Modern Art from the Permanent Collection, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, December 16, 1995-April 7, 1996.

Europaische Kunst aus Berner Privatbesitz, Kunsthalle, Bern, Germany, July 31-September 20, 1953, no. 48.

European Art at Dartmouth: Highlights from the Hood Museum of Art, William B. Jaffe and Evelyn A. Jaffe Hall Galleries, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, August 30, 2008-March 8, 2009.

Georges Braque, Juan Gris, Pablo Picasso, Kunsthalle, Bern, Germany, April 2-29, 1948, no. 95.

Graphisches Kabinett, Munich, Germany, January, 1930.

Inaugural Exhibition, Johnson Music and Arts Center, Middlebury, Vermont, October 11-November 3, 1968.

Internationale Kunstaustellung, Dresden, Germany, June-September, 1926, no. 377.

Introduction to the History of Art II, 1500 to present, Harrington Gallery Teaching Exhibition, ArtH2, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, January 24-March 14, 2004.

Ivan Albright Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, August 31-November 14, 1999.

Ivan Albright Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, January 7, 2011.

Ivan Albright Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, October 9, 2001-July 28, 2002.

Main Lobby, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, January 1-24, 1989.

Main Lobby, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, June 6-November 18, 1992.

Moderne eurpaeische Malerei, Kunstverein, Hamburg, Germany, September, 1926.

Neue franzoesische Malerei, Kunstverein, Frankfurt-am-Main, Germany, November, 1926, no. 29.

Picasso, Braque, Leger and the Cubist Spirit, 1919-1939, Portland Museum of Art, Portland, Maine, June 29-October 20, 1996.

Professor Jacobus's Cubist Exhibition, Carpenter Hall, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, April 6-June 11, 1979.

The Dartmouth Collection: 19th & 20th Century Paintings, Jaffe-Friede Gallery, Hopkins Center Art Galleries, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, September 17-November 6, 1982.

The Machine in the Garden: Cubist Art From the Hood Collection, Alumni College 1986, Harrington Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, July 26-August 24, 1986.

The Protean Century, 1870-1970, A Loan Exhibition from The Dartmouth College Collection, Alumni and Friends of the College [under the auspices of the Dartmouth Arts Council], M. Knoedler & Company, Inc, New York, New York, February 10-28, 1970, no. 17.

Twentieth Century Works from the Dartmouth Collection, Harrington Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, March 19-May 29, 1988.

Vom Abbild zum Sinnbild, Stadelsches Kunstinstitut, Frankfurt-am-Main, Germany, June 3-July 3, 1931, no. 83.

Publication History

Treasures of the Hood Museum, Dartmouth College, New York: Hudson Hill Press, 1985, p. 129, no. 119.

Douglas Cooper, Juan Gris: Catalogue raisonne de l'oeuvre peint, Paris: Berggruen, 1977, vol. II, pp. 356-357, no. 533, ill.

Juan Antonio Gaya-Nuno, Juan Gris, Barcelona: Ediciones Poligrafia, 1974, p. 229, no. 542; Paris: Editions Cercle d'Art, 1974, p. 246, no. 542.

Ellen Mary Jones, The Protean Century, 1870-1970, Lunenberg, Vermont: Stinehour Press, 1970, no. 17, ill.

Inaugural Exhibition, Middlebury, Vermont: Johnson Music and Arts Center, 1968, no. 23.

T. Barton Thurber, European Art at Dartmouth: Highlights from the Hood Museum of Art, Hanover: Trustees of Dartmouth College, 2008, pp. 105-107, ill. pp. 106/107, no. 54.

The Protean Century, 1870-1970, Hanover, New Hampshire: Trustees of Dartmouth College, 1970, no. 17.

Provenance

From the artist to Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler (1888-1979), Paris; Galerie Simon, Paris; Dr. G. F. Reber, Lausanne, 1925; Mlle. Irmgart Fritsch, Lausanne; Galerie Gasser, Zurich; Professor Walter Hadorn, Bern; Leonard Hutton Galleries, New York; Galerie Beyeler, Basel; private collection, Brussels; Ruth and Charles R. Lachman (1894-1985), New York; given to present collection, 1959.

Catalogue Raisonne

D. Cooper, 1977, vol. II, no. 533.

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