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Look at the ace of clubs on the right, where the club turns from black on white to green on black, then follow the green dots across the board.
Gris painted this narrow board in 1915, the same year as Fantômas, and it is only about 30 centimeters tall. Two playing cards lie on a tabletop among stacked planes of wood grain, green dots and blue. Its first recorded owner was John Quinn of New York, who died in 1924; the picture was sold in his estate sale in Paris in 1926.
oil on board · overall: 30.48 × 16.51 cm · National Gallery of Art · Cubism
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Details and source
- Museum title
- Ace of Clubs and Four of Diamonds
- Artist
- Juan Gris Spanish, 1887 - 1927
- Date
- 1915
- Medium
- oil on board
- Dimensions
- overall: 30.48 × 16.51 cm (12 × 6 1/2 in.) framed: 42.07 × 26.99 × 4.13 cm (16 9/16 × 10 5/8 × 1 5/8 in.)
- Credit line
- Gift of Robert and Mercedes Eichholz
- Image license
- CC0 1.0 · Public domain
- Museum record
- National Gallery of Art
Galler’s rooms and hanging scale are imagined. The image is the museum’s original digital reproduction.