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...Spanish painter Juan Gris once defined classicism as a perfect balance between the emotional and intellectual. In that sense, Louise and Joseph Pulitzer, Jr.'s collection reflects a truly classic taste. Most private collections mirror the collector in some way, revealing a conservative temperament or avant-garde spirit, sometimes a literary bent or romantic strain. Some, influenced by reputation or advice, reflect no intellectual activity other than faith. The Pulitzers' choice, however, represents not only a distinct personality but a clarified point of view...
...much more "right" in every respect is the staccato rhythm of Klee's ironically entitled Anchored, or the intensely Spanish tautness of Gris' Self Portrait...
...country estate at Giverny were considered so amorphous that one critic called him the "victim and gravedigger of impressionism." Now once again Monet's star has begun to glow almost as brightly as that of Cezanne, whose studies paved the way for Cubists Picasso, Braque and Gris. And it is on Monet's once-despised latest work that enthusiasm is now centered...
Instead of exploring reality by re-creating the illusion of space, Gris created a two-dimensional world, used light only for dramatic highlights, reordered objects to make a striking design and rhythm on the canvas. "Cezanne turns a bottle into a cylinder," Gris wrote, "but I begin with a cylinder and create an individual of a special type: I make a bottle-a particular bottle-out of a cylinder...
...Still Life Gris painted in 1915 (see opposite), he showed a clutter of everyday things -a book, a bottle of Medoc, a newspaper, a table and a view out the window-as they might appear if refracted by a prism. The result is a much more orderly design than the eye could have seen in his drab, poorly furnished room on the Rue Ravignan, but it testifies to the vision that kept Gris painting there. In 1927, when he was only 40, Gris died of uremia. Long afterward, Picasso, studying one of Gris's paintings, said...