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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

All Collection Highlights
  • 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.
  • Le Matin en Provence (Morning in Provence), ca. 1900-1906

    Paul Cézanne

    Similarly short, distinct brushstrokes primarily in cool shades of green and blue coalesce into a sketchily painted landscape; portions of the canvas are visible. A light green field fills much of the bottom third of the canvas, and the sky above, while largely blue, also includes some green areas. A slender, leafless tree rises from the left edge of the field and curves at its top toward the right and downward. A small, light brown house sits on the right edge of the field.
  • 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.
  • Limit of the Twilight, 1991

    Roni Horn

    The phrase “49 MILES” in yellow block letters, tilted slightly as if set in italics, fills the polished aluminum surface of this sculpture facing the viewer. Additional stripes of yellow extend from where these numbers and letters touch the left and top edges of the sculpture’s front surface across its left and top surfaces. Overall, the sculpture takes the form of a rectangular cube whose depth and width are equal to one another and considerably smaller than its length. It is shown installed on the floor.
  • Untitled (intern "Shape 7") (KG/O 2010_8031L), 2010

    Katharina Grosse

    This abstract sculpture appears overall like an oversized piece of paper with a V-shaped divot cut out of the right side and curling edges. It balances on the floor near its center. The underside of the plastic form is white, but bright patches of spray-painted yellow, blue, green, purple, orange, black, gray, and pink cover the top, overlapping and dripping onto one another.
  • Le Feu d'artifice (Fireworks), 1887

    James Ensor

    Le Feu d'artifice (Fireworks)
  • Untitled, 1986

    Olivier Mosset

    This large, horizontally oriented abstract painting is visually divided into two square portions. On the left, alternating red and purple stripes of the same width span the height of the canvas. On the right, stripes of the same color and size run horizontally from the right edge to the painting’s overall center. The lines formed by the stripes are very straight and even.
  • Over the Edge, 1992

    Peter Halley

    A light gray-green square sits slightly above center and fills much of this square canvas. L shapes of varying widths in cream, burnt orange, black, and mustard yellow extend from the square into the taupe-colored margins above and to the left and right of the square. Two additional brighter yellow L shapes, one dramatically thicker than the other, extend from the square into the burgundy-colored margin below the square.
  • 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.

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