レメディオス・ヴァロ（Remedios Varo）作『The Juggler (The Magician)』
美術館のキャプション
This painting's titular juggler (or magician) stands on the platform of a carnivalesque cart filled with fantastical objects and animals. He performs before seemingly identical figures robed in a single gray cloak. To produce this composition, Valo worked in the manner of early Renaissance masters: she transposed preparatory drawings onto a gesso-primed panel which had been scratched to give it texture. She also deployed decalcomania, a technique favored by the Surrealists in which materials such as paper to transfer a pattern that may be embellished. Its atmospheric effects can be seen in the magician's garments and in the background trees.