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Ace of Clubs and Four of Diamonds
Juan Gris, 1915
1.70 m
15 cm × 31 cm
About the size of a sheet of A4. You would need 6 of them to reach a person's height.
Against things you know the size of
- Height
- 31 cm
- Width
- 15 cm
- Medium
- oil on board
- Kind
- Painting
- Where the measurement comes from
- Measured by the museum. The dimension is the one recorded by the institution that holds the work.
- Why this differs from the record
- Recorded as 17 cm × 31 cm. Hung to match the photograph.
- Credit
- Gift of Robert and Mercedes Eichholz
Ask this work
Five questions, answered from its own record. What is AGAI?
- How big is it?
- 15 cm × 31 cm. About the size of a sheet of A4. Measured by the museum.
- When was it made, and when is it everyone’s?
- Made 1915. It is in the public domain, and National Gallery of Art publishes it for open use.
- Whose is it?
- Everyone’s to see. It is held by National Gallery of Art: Gift of Robert and Mercedes Eichholz.
- How was it made?
- Oil on board.
- Who speaks for it?
- Its record at National Gallery of Art. Measured by the museum. This gallery adds nothing it cannot cite.
Its colours
Read from the picture. Copy a colour, keep the palette, or furnish a room in it. My palettes
Stand next to it in the gallery Record at National Gallery of Art
Four works a week, shown at their real size
One email. The smallest thing in the collection, the largest, and two that hang well together.
Hangs well beside
Scored on colour, shape, era and scale, the same way the gallery hangs them.
