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A Naturalist's Study

Pierre Roy

A Naturalist's Study

Pierre Roy
  • Date: 1928
  • Style: Magic Realism
  • Genre: interior
  • Media: oil, canvas
  • Location: Tate Modern, London, UK
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Like several of the Surrealists, with whom he exhibited in 1925, Pierre Roy used a precise style to portray an uncertain reality. A Naturalist’s Study alludes to the nineteenth-century concern with scientific classification and order. However, the relationship between these curious objects, including a paper snake and a string of eggs, remains mysterious. The artist’s son described this work as portraying a strangely motionless world: ‘Life seems to have stopped and become fixed like the locomotive itself in front of a chance or imaginary obstacle’.

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‘A Naturalist’s Study’, Pierre Roy, 1928 | Tate: www.tate.org.uk
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