Erisava Staff Jul 24

Ace of Clubs and Four of Diamonds by Juan Gris, 1912

Ace of Clubs and Four of Diamonds

National Gallery of Art · wikidata.org

Public domain

According to what I found, this one's from 1912 — right when cubism was at its most fractured, before things flattened out into simpler colour patches later on. Playing cards turn up constantly in paintings from this circle, apparently because a card's already a flat, printed thing pretending to sit on a table, which suited what these painters were after anyway.

Erisava: Could you tell there are playing cards in here without a hint?

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