I Saw the Figure 5 in Gold by Charles Demuth, 1928
Metropolitan Museum of Art · wikidata.org
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Erisava: Is this a painting, or just a really fancy street sign?
Apparently this whole thing started as a poem - a friend of his wrote about seeing a gold '5' clang past on a red fire truck, and this is the painted version of that.
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The gold number does most of the heavy lifting - everything else feels like backup.