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  4. Queen of Hearts

Fernand Léger

French, 1881-1955

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Queen of Hearts, 1949

Artwork Details

Materials

lithograph

Edition:

232/300

Measurements

sheet: 39 3/8 x 21 inches (100.01 x 53.34 cm)

Collection Buffalo AKG Art Museum

Credit

Gift of Wade Stevenson, 1983

Accession ID

P1983:42.1

Object Classifications:

Prints

Work Type:

Lithograph

Information may change due to ongoing research. Glossary of Terms

Other Works by This Artist

  • La Fumée (Smoke), 1912

    Fernand Léger

    La Fumée (Smoke)
  • Gare (laPort), not dated

    Fernand Léger

    Gare (laPort)
  • Le Siphon, 1924

    Fernand Léger

    Le Siphon
  • Le Village dans la forêt (The Village in the Forest), 1914

    Fernand Léger

    Le Village dans la forêt (The Village in the Forest)
  • Composition with Profile, 1948

    Fernand Léger

    Composition with Profile
  • La Fleur qui marche (The Walking Flower), 1951

    Fernand Léger

    La Fleur qui marche (The Walking Flower)
  • Untitled, 1952

    Fernand Léger

    Untitled
  • La Fermiere, 1953

    Fernand Léger

    La Fermiere
  • La Flèche (The Arrow), 1919

    Fernand Léger

    Delicate marks in black ink and watercolor fill this white paper. Slightly to the left of the center is a square road sign with a white, left-facing arrow on a black background. The imagery surrounding this sign fluctuates between abstract and representational. Fragmented symbols, beams, and pipes emerge from planar surfaces and angular contours. Multiple repetitive lines and angles evoke movement, suggesting an industrial environment, such as a railroad crossing.

Collection Highlights

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  • Parallel I-IV, 2012-2014

    Harun Farocki

    Five large digital screens hang from the ceiling of a darkened room. Two are hung side by side toward the left and rear of the room; two more are hung side by side toward the right and rear of the room; and a single screen hangs in the center foreground. All five screens feature imagery sourced from contemporary video games.
  • Civil Tapestry 5, 2012

    Theaster Gates

    This large-scale wall-mounted sculpture features forty-one sections of fire hose of equal size laid vertically side-by-side. From left to right, the sections of fire hose progressively appear more worn. The dominant color of the fabric gradually transitions from yellow to tones of gray. Some sections of the fire hose are stamped with black letters spelling out the original manufacturer specifications.
  • Le Vociférant (The Loud One), 1973

    Jean Dubuffet

    A number of small, irregularly shaped metal fragments are adhered together at various angles to form the contours of a vaguely humanoid figure. Each of these white fragments is heavily edged in black, and most of their interiors are filled with thin blue or red stripes; a small number of fragments are solid white, red, or blue. shape like a hand with three fingers and a thumb sticks out to the left side, midway down.
  • Sentinel, 1978

    Anne Truitt

    The body of this tall, thin, rectangular wooden pillar is almost entirely white. Light gray stripes run along the length of each of its four corners, and the base of the sculpture is marked with a thin black band with a thin red line running through its center. The work sits directly on the floor.
  • Electric, 1963

    Edward Ruscha

    The word “electric” in all capital, italicized letters spans across the center of this almost square canvas. The letters are painted in a gradient from bright yellow at the top to rich orange at the bottom, standing out in stark contrast against the solid deep blue background.
  • Alpha, 1960

    Morris Louis

    Stripes of orange, black, yellow, blue, and red stream from the left and right sides of this large, horizontally oriented abstract painting. The stripes are thickest near the top of the canvas and grow thinner as they reach the bottom. A large expanse of raw canvas yawns between these colored passages.
  • Untitled, 1998-2002

    Gregory Crewdson

    This large-scale color photograph captures a mysterious scene staged in a domestic bathroom, which is presented in cross-section. In the center of the frame, a white man, wearing only briefs, is bent over on the floor of a shower stall. His right arm reaches through the drain and is visible in the dark crawlspace below floor level where a pipe would normally be connected. The dim light filtering through a small window on the left evokes a sense of twilight.
  • The Cone, 1960

    Alexander Calder

    A large playful sculpture made of thin sheets of black metal forming a partially open cone that stands on its circular base. A thin metal rod is balanced across the cone’s pointed top. Numerous interconnected wires and rods, each of which ends in a small white metal circle, hang from one side of the rod. The weight of the many wires and circles on one side of the central rod is counterbalanced and held in equilibrium by a single red circle on the rod’s other end.
  • Infvitabile Fatvm, 1994

    Leon Golub

    Much of this canvas, especially the top portion, is covered in rough patches of thinly applied black and red paint. A white mark extending from the top of the canvas divides it roughly in half; the black paint appears on the left side and the red on the right. This white mark also bisects the work’s title as inscribed in white paint along the top edge. The torso of a man, who appears to be suspended by his upstretched arms, appears in the bottom left.

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