Harlequin with a Guitar | |
Artist: | Juan Gris |
Year: | 1917 |
Material: | Oil on wood panel |
Height Metric: | 100.3 |
Width Metric: | 65.1 |
Museum: | Metropolitan Museum of Art |
City: | New York |
Accession: | 2008.468 |
Harlequin with a Guitar is an oil on canvas painting by Spanish cubist Juan Gris, from 1917. The work is in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, in New York.[1]
The Harlequin with his checkered costume was a favorite theme of cubists and Gris portrayed him in approximately forty works between 1917 and 1925.