Juan Gris the painters of the Puteaux Group in the Salon de "la Section d'Or" in 1912. His preference for clarity and order influenced the Purist style of Amédée Ozenfant and Charles Edouard Jeanneret (Le Corbusier), and made Gris an important exemplar of the post-war "return to order" movement. In 1915 he was painted by his friend, Amedeo Modigliani. In November 1917 he made one of his few sculptures, the polychrome plaster "Harlequin". Gris's works from late 1916 through 1917 exhibit a greater simplification of geometric structure, a blurring of the distinction between objects and setting, between subject matter and background. The
Nuages gris was happening and what would happen in European music: sound, with the assistance of symmetry, would take over, harmony would be absorbed into color and lose its cadential function." Claude Debussy probably had "Nuages gris" in mind when he composed his own "Nuages". Mauricio Kagel used "Nuages gris" in his "Unguis incarnatus est" (1972). in 1986, Heinz Holliger worked the piece out into "Zwei Liszt-Transkriptionen" for orchestra (together with "Unstern!"). A shocking scene at the morgue in Stanley Kubrick's last film" Eyes Wide Shut" is accompanied by "Nuages gris". Nuages gris Nuages gris (; French, lit. "Grey Clouds"), S.199 or