Juan Gris was a Spanish painter and sculptor who lived and worked in France most of his life. Juan Gris Paintings are closely connected to the emergence of an innovative artistic genreāCubism. 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.Before 2005, a Juan Gris painting sold for more than US$69 million.