"It was in the oeuvre of Juan Gris," wrote Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler, "that Cubism reached its purest (flawless) image in the 16 years that he was granted by destiny to produce his work." Though Cubism had been conceived and developed by Picasso and Braque, it was Gris who pursued it most faithfully.

In 1906 Gris moved to Paris and settled in the Bateau-Lavoir, where Picasso was living.There he met other artists and poets such as Apollinaire, Max Jacob and Andre Salmon. Gris worked as an illustrator part of the time and as a painter the rest. His first works as an artist were watercolors on paper. Later he began to produce oils on canvas. His art has a secretive aspect to it, reflecting his own personality, as he rejected brilliancy and the spectacular. Juan Gris did not have an easy life. ...