Glass and Checkerboard

Spanische Malerei 1457–1914, c. 1917

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.”
Artist
Spanische Malerei 1457–1914
Date
c. 1917
Type
Painting
Medium
oil on wood
Dimensions
29.85 × 41.28 cm
Collection
National Gallery of Art, Washington
Licence
Public domain, CC0

Image description

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.”

Spanische Malerei 1457–1914