École Européene (XX) - Paris, 1907 - XL

- Oil on wooden board.

- Here is a geometric and categorical truth, distilled without concessions: reality is not contemplated, it is reordered. In this still life, the cerebral lesson of Parisian Cubism’s early phase unfolds its mathematical rigor through an almost ghostly transparency: the tablecloth fractures into rational planes, the faux wooden table reveals its grain to the defeated perspective, and over it the profane liturgy of bohemian life is orchestrated. The bottle of deep green glass and the half-cracked wine glass share the table with Le Journal’s unfolded header and the brochure of Les Orientales, while the pipe draws its synthetic silhouette as the ultimate emblem of contemplative thought. It is Juan Gris’s immortal triumph: to strip everyday objects of their ephemeral vulgarity and elevate the bottle of cheap wine, ash, and newspaper into the absolute plastic truths, eternal and unbribable.

- Image dimensions without frame: 110 x 80 cm

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