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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
  • Femme cousant (Woman Sewing), ca. 1879

    Berthe Morisot

    The profile of a young woman bent intensely over the sewing work she holds in her hands fills the foreground of this portrait-oriented painting. Her caramel-colored hair is pulled back from her face in a bun, and she wears a dark green dress topped with a white lace shawl. In the background, a white urn and a wooden box open to reveal its red interior sit on top of a table covered in a cream colored and floral patterned cloth.
  • Kindergrab (No. 243), 1999

    Thomas Scheibitz

    Kindergrab (No. 243)
  • 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.
  • Venetian Bead Stringers, 1880 or 1882

    John Singer Sargent

    A standing woman approaches two seated women stringing beads over a shallow wooden bowl in the center right of this painting, which is set in a large, mostly empty room. An open doorway and windows at the back of the room provide limited light. At right, a bench is positioned against a wall. The two seated women wear dark dresses while their standing companion wears a white dress mostly covered with a dark shawl.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Green Horses, 1988

    Bruce Nauman

    Green Horses
  • 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.
  • Fragment 2 for Composition VII, 1913

    Vassily Kandinsky

    Fragment 2 for Composition VII

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