Juan Gris, Breakfast, 1914. Cut-and-pasted paper, crayon, and oil on canvas; 31 7/8 x 23 1/2 inches. MoMA, New York.
No better way to start an amorously grey Sunday than Tea with Juan Gris.
His 1914 cubist collage Breakfast is currently among my favorite paintings.
Must not forget to mention another personal favorite, or series of favorites -- Futurist Giacomo Balla's
Giacomo Balla, Swifts: Patterns of Movement + Dynamic Sequences, 1913. oil on canvas; 38 1/8 x 47 1/4 inches. MoMA, New York.
dynamic paintings of swallows in flight, one of which, also, hangs at the Museum of Modern Art. I could rhapsodize about this too, into eternity, but will spare you all for another day.
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