1970s Barbara Kwaśniewska “Dame De Trèfles” (Queen of Clubs) Signed Embossed Print 78/150

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Barbara Kwaśniewska’s Dame de Trèfles - translated as “Queen of Clubs” - is a striking signed and numbered limited-edition … Read more Artist:
Barbara Kwaśniewska’s Dame de Trèfles - translated as “Queen of Clubs” - is a striking signed and numbered limited-edition print with a richly worked surface and strong graphic presence.

This example is numbered 78/150, titled along the lower margin, and signed by the artist. The composition combines bold fields of red, orange, black, and cream with striped passages and pronounced raised white linear elements. The surrounding ground is heavily textured, giving the work a tactile, almost relief-like quality that becomes especially apparent in close viewing.

Kwaśniewska was a Polish-born painter and printmaker who worked in France from the late 1950s. Her graphic work from the 1960s and around 1970 is represented in the collection of the Centre Pompidou, including prints such as Oiseau du Nil, Ignudi, Domus Aurea, and Lune de Jade. Centre Pompidou.

She developed a distinctive graphic language built around bold abstraction, stylized figuration, and richly textured print surfaces, often combining strong color fields with embossed or relief-like passages. Her work sits comfortably within the postwar European printmaking tradition, where experimentation with process and surface became as important as the image itself.

Presented under glass in its existing frame and matting. The detailed photographs are intended to show the embossed passages, paper texture, signature, title, and edition number clearly.

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Barbara Kwaśniewska
Dame de Trèfles (“Queen of Clubs”)
Limited edition 78/150
Signed and titled
Embossed / textured print on paper
Framed dimension: 40" h x 30" w
Art piece dimension: 29.5"h x 22.5"w See less