Lithograph and stencil on vélin paper. Paper size: 10.83 x 8.27 inches. Excellent condition. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Notes: From the album, L'Art Cubiste, Théories et Réalisations, Etude Critique, 1929. Published by Éditions Charles Moreau, Paris; printed by Atelier Daniel Jacomet, Paris, May, 1929. Excerpted from the album (translated from French), This album was composed in Didot Characters and completed to print in May 1929 by Ducros et Colas, Maîtres-Imprimeurs in Paris. Boards have been executed by D. Jacomet in an edition of D examples, numbered on the colophons. JUAN GRIS (1887-1927) was a Spanish painter born in Madrid who lived and worked in France for most of his active period. Closely connected to the innovative artistic genre Cubism, his works are among the movement's most distinctive. In 1906, after he sold all his possessions, he moved to Paris and became friends with the poets Guillaume Apollinaire, Max Jacob, and artists Henri Matisse, Georges Braque, Fernand Léger and Jean Metzinger. He submitted darkly humorous illustrations to journals such as the anarchist satirical magazine L'Assiette au Beurre, and also Le Rire, Le Charivari, and Le Cri de Paris. In Paris, Gris followed the lead of Metzinger and another friend and fellow countryman, Pablo Picasso.