Quote of the day
The sun was like a great visiting presence that stimulated and took its due from all animal energy. When it flung wide its cloak and stepped down over the edge of the fields at evening, it left behind it a spent and exhausted world.
Juan Gris
Born: March 23, 1887
Died: May 11, 1927 (aged 40)
Bio: José Victoriano González-Pérez, better known as Juan Gris, was a Spanish painter and sculptor born in Madrid who lived and worked in France most of his life.
Known for:
- Portrait of Pablo Picasso (1912)
- Still Life with Flowers (1912)
- Bottles and Knife (1912)
- Guitar and Pipe (1913)
- Guitar on a Chair (1913)
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