How does Juan Gris' work compare to that of Pablo Picasso?

It's stiffer. The pipe-like forms are formulaic. They don't bend toward the synthesis of space Picasso and Braque worked on in their Synthetic Cubist period. They're really more like social figurative scenes with a cubistic twist. read more

It’s stiffer. The pipe-like forms are formulaic. They don’t bend toward the synthesis of space Picasso and Braque worked on in their Synthetic Cubist period. They’re really more like social figurative scenes with a cubistic twist. read more

Basel, Kunsthalle, Juan Gris, Georges Braque, Pablo Picasso, February 26–March 24, 1948, cat. 5. Bern, Kunsthalle, Georges Braque, Juan Gris, Pablo Picasso, April 2–29, 1948, cat. 41. New York, Buchholz Gallery, Cubism, April 5–30, 1949, cat. 7 (ill.), as Hommage à Pablo Picasso, 1911. read more

In A Life of Picasso, John Richardson writes that Jean Metzinger's 1911 work, Le goûter (Tea Time), persuaded Juan Gris of the importance of mathematics in painting. Gris exhibited for the first time at the 1912 Salon des Indépendants (a painting entitled Hommage à Pablo Picasso). read more