Le Joueur Secret
Le Joueur Secret (The Secret Player) is a 1927 painting by Belgian surrealist artist René Magritte.[1] This surreal oil on canvas mainly depicts two baseball players at the foot of giant bowling pins and under a black leatherback turtle floating in the air. The work is part of the collection of the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium , it is kept at the Magritte Museum in Brussels. The painting was included in the exhibition "Mystery of the Ordinary 1926–1938" co-organized by the Museum of Modern Art in New York City, the Menil Collection in Houston, Texas, and the Art Institute of Chicago which was displayed at all three venues.[2][3]
References[]
- ^ Lipinski, Lisa (4 April 2019). René Magritte and the Art of Thinking. Routledge. ISBN 978-1-351-62643-9.
- ^ "Œuvre " Le joueur secret " – Musées royaux des Beaux-Arts de Belgique". www.fine-arts-museum.be.
- ^ "René Magritte. Le Joueur secret (The Secret Player). Brussels, 1927 | MoMA". The Museum of Modern Art.
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