The Reflective Football
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The Football Players


Henri Rousseau

1908

Rousseau's self-taught Primitivist style renders football players in his signature flat, dreamlike manner.


One of the earliest major fine-art paintings to take football itself as its subject, by a canonical modern painter.

Language
N/A (visual art)
Subject
Naive-style painting of men playing football
Region
Europe
Tone
Light
Difficulty
Familiar

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York

Museum collection

Sourcenews.artnet.com

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