Kubism
with bright harmonious colors in daring, novel combinations in the manner of his friend
Matisse.
In 1924, he first designed ballet sets and costumes for Sergei Diaghilev and the famous
Ballets Russes.
Gris articulated most of his aesthetic theories during 1924 and 1925. He delivered his
definitive lecture, Des possibilités de la peinture, at the Sorbonne in 1924. Major Gris
exhibitions took place at the Galerie Simon in Paris and the Galerie Flechtheim in Berlin in
1923, and at the Galerie Flechtheim in Düsseldorf in 1925.
He died in Boulogne-sur-Seine (Paris) in the spring of 1927 at the age of forty, leaving a wife,
Josette, and a son, Georges.
His top auction price is $20.8 million which was set by his 1915 still life titled, Livre, pipe et
verres.[1]
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