[Leger Painting] Fernand Leger became a leader of the Parisian vanguard between the two world wars. Still Life: King of Diamonds belongs to a series of paintings based on the motif of the playing card. While precisely representing the tarot card figures, he transformed them into machine parts.

Leger sought to meld classical design elements, based on the ideal of harmony, with representations of machinery in many of his works. He became one of the principal architects of 20th-century machine aesthetics.

Courtesy of the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, gift of Joseph H. Hirshhorn, 1966.

Still Life: King of Diamonds, 1927, by Fernand Leger (1881-1955), oil on canvas

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