Gris, Juan, pseudonym of Jos� Victoriano Gonz�lez 1887-1927
Spanish painter

Born in Madrid, he went in 1906 to Paris, where he associated with Picasso and Matisse and became an exponent of synthetic Cubism. He exhibited with the Cubists in the Section d'Or exhibition in Paris (1912), and in 1920 at the Salon des Ind�pendants. He settled at Boulogne and in 1923 designed the d�cor for three productions by Sergei Diaghilev. He also worked as a book illustrator. In most of his paintings the composition of the picture dictates the deliberate distortion and rhythmic rearrangement of the subjects, as in Still Life with Dice (1922) in the Mus�e d'Art Moderne, Paris.