The Secret Player
| The Secret Player | |
|---|---|
| Le Joueur secret (French) | |
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| Artist | René Magritte |
| Year | 1927 |
| Medium | Oil on canvas |
| Movement | Surrealism |
| Dimensions | 152 cm × 195 cm (60 in × 77 in) |
| Location | |
The Secret Player (French: Le Joueur secret) 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 2013 exhibition Magritte: The 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.[2][3]
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[edit]References
[edit]- ↑ 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.