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]
See also
- List of paintings by René Magritte
- 1927 in art
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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- List of paintings
- The Difficult Crossing (1926; 1963)
- Le Joueur Secret (1927)
- The Enchanted Pose (1927)
- The Menaced Assassin (1927)
- The Meaning of Night (1927)
- The Adulation of Space (1927–1928)
- The Empty Mask (1928)
- The False Mirror (1928)
- The Treachery of Images (1929)
- On the Threshold of Liberty (1929/1937)
- The Voice of Space (1931)
- Elective Affinities (1933)
- The Human Condition (1933/1935)
- The Portrait (1935)
- Not to Be Reproduced (1937)
- Time Transfixed (1938)
- The Palace of Memories (1939)
- The Empire of Light (1949–1954)
- The Seducer (1950)
- The Listening Room (1952)
- Golconda (1953)
- The Mysteries of the Horizon (1955)
- 16th September (1956)
- The Alarm Clock (1957)
- The Castle of the Pyrenees (1959)
- The Telescope (1963)
- The Son of Man (1964)
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