We look down at a wooden tabletop with two playing cards among stacked rectangles and wedges in this vertical, abstract painting. The two playing cards we can make out are a four of diamonds to our left and an ace of clubs to our right. The ace shifts from the traditional black club on a white background to a moss-green club on a black background on the top half. The other rectangles could be upside-down cards, though they are larger in scale than the face-up playing cards. These shapes are made with pea-green dots on a black background, areas of textured silvery olive green, and sky blue.…
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Ace of Clubs and Four of Diamonds

Juan Gris (Spanish, 1887 - 1927)

1915

Medium
oil on board
Classification
Painting
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.)
Culture
Spanish
Museum
National Gallery of Art, CMC
Credit line
Gift of Robert and Mercedes Eichholz
Rights
Public domain (NGA Open Access, CC0), as the museum states it.
Who can see it
Teens profiles and older: its museum says too little about what it shows to place it for younger viewers. How works are placed

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