Quatre Zinnias

Artist Bernard Buffet (French, 1928–1999)

Date1967

Mediumoil on canvas

Dimensionscanvas: 65.1 x 54.6 cm (25 5/8 x 21 1/2 in.)
frame: 85.1 x 73.7 cm (33 1/2 x 29 in.)

ClassificationsPaintings

Credit LineGift of William Schwann

Object number1979.82

Label TextThis painting, rarely on view since coming to the museum in 1979, is exhibited in connection with a lecture by Harvard neurobiologist Margaret Livingstone on vision, perception, and art. Artists have long recognized that color and form can be treated independently, and that our color acuity is lower than our form acuity. Here the artist uses this to effect and, literally, doesn’t color inside the lines. ProvenanceWilliam Schwann, South Lincoln MA

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