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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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  • Music, 1904

    Thomas Eakins

    Music
  • Soft Manhattan #1 (Postal Zones), 1966

    Claes Oldenburg

    The overall shape of this wall-mounted sculpture is similar to the outline of the island of Manhattan as it might appear on a map. The sculpture is made up of roughly thirty-five beige, tan, brown, and gray bags stacked together. These bags are shaped and positioned to mirror the outlines of the city’s postal zones.
  • Triptych with Footprints, 1970

    Antoni Tàpies

    Three vertical cream-colored panels are joined to form a long thin horizontal work. A series of footprints stretches across all three panels, slightly above their centers. On the left panel, gray cloudlike forms float at top and bottom, and a grouping of letters and lines stretch diagonally from the upper left-hand toward the center. A series of lines and waves fill the bottom half of the right panel.
  • Child's Blue Wall, 1962

    Jim Dine

    A field of hand-painted white stars alternating with dark blue dots fills the light blue background of this nearly square canvas. Attached to the bottom-right corner is a what appears to be the base of a child’s table lamp, complete with a blocky castle and toy soldier painted in solid shades of white, blue, and red beneath a shadeless, illuminated bulb. Midway up the left edge of painting is a light switch with a blue plate and worn white switch.
  • untitled (to Donna) 6, 1971

    Dan Flavin

    A square of fluorescent tube lights mounted in white aluminum fixtures sits on the floor in front of a corner of the gallery space. The lights that make up the top and the bottom of the frame shine bright blue light outward. The lights that make up the right and left of the frame cast yellow and pink light into the corner behind the sculpture.
  • Elegy to the Spanish Republic XXXIV, 1953-1954

    Robert Motherwell

    Elegy to the Spanish Republic XXXIV
  • Street in Meknes, 1832

    Eugène Delacroix

    Street in Meknes
  • Rue de village à Marlotte (Village Street in Marlotte), 1866

    Alfred Sisley

    This horizontally oriented canvas features a loosely painted rural scene of several old stone houses and a dirt road running between them. Tall trees rise above behind the roofs. The grey and somber light that pervades the scene overall streams from a cloudy sky in the top quarter of the canvas. In the painting’s middle ground, a human figure wearing a blue shirt and light-colored trousers raises an axe above his head in order to chop a large branch at his feet.
  • Kindergrab (No. 243), 1999

    Thomas Scheibitz

    Kindergrab (No. 243)

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