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''Les Joueurs de football'', also referred to as ''Football Players'', is a 1912-13 painting by the French artist, theorist and writer Albert Gleizes. The work was exhibited at the Salon des Indépendants, Paris, March–May 1913 (no. 1293). September through December 1913 the painting was exhibited at Erster Deutscher Herbstsalon, Berlin (no. 147). The work was featured at Galeries Dalmau in Barcelona, 29 November – 12 December 1916 (no. 31), Gleizes' first one-person show. Stylistically Gleizes' ''Football Players'' exemplifies the principle of mobile perspective laid out in ''Du "Cubisme"'', written by himself and French painter Jean Metzinger. Guillaume Apollinaire wrote about ''Les Joueurs de football'' in an article titled ''Le Salon des indépendants'', published in L'Intransigeant, 18 mars 1913, and again in ''A travers le Salon des indépendants'', published in Montjoie! Numéro Spécial, 18 mars 1913.〔(Montjoie! Numéro Spécial, Guillaume Apollinaire, ''A travers les Indépendants'', 18 March 1913 )〕 ''Les Joueurs de football'' was left by the artist at Galeries Dalmau in 1916. Titled ''Jugadors de Futbol'', the painting was reproduced in the avant-garde Catalan magazine ''L'Amic de les arts'', November 1926. The caption included the inscription ''Collection Joseph Dalmau''.〔(L'Amic de les arts, Gaseta de Sitges, Any 1, núm. 8 (nov. 1926), p. 3 )〕 It was purchased from the Dalmau family between 1953 and 1955 by Stephen Hahn and (The Sidney Janis Gallery); sold in 1955 to Nelson Aldrich Rockefeller, New York. Subsequently the work was sold to Marlborough-Gerson Gallery, New York, and purchased May 1970 by the National Gallery of Art (NGA), Washington D.C.〔(Albert Gleizes, ''Football Players'', National Gallery of Art )〕 ==Description== ''Les Joueurs de football'' is a large oil painting on canvas with dimensions 225.4 x 183 cm (88 3/4 x 72 1/16 in.) signed and dated "Albert Gleizes 1912–13", lower left. After at least one preliminary sketch,〔''Study for Football Players (Dessin pour Les Joueurs de football)'' published in Montjoie! Salon des Indépendants, no. 4, March 29, 1913〕 Gleizes began working on this painting in 1912 and finished it before exhibiting the work at the Salon des Indépendants, March 1913. Moving away from his quasi-monochromatic works of 1910 and 1911, Gleizes employs a wide array of primary colors, grays, earth tones and umbers. Unlike the preferred subject matter of Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque (e.g., still lives or guitar players), Gleizes has depicted a vast scene, combining a sporting event with a semi-urban or industrial landscape in the background. As the principle subject matter of this work Gleizes chose to represent a group of six or seven rugby football players. The action and contact between the players is palpable. Two of the men are holding on to the player with the ball (blue jersey) as if a tackle is imminent. In contrast to the impending violence of the sport, Gleizes has painted flowers along with some cubic shapes toward the bottom right of the picture. On the bottom left is a man, possibly a fallen player, holding what appears to be a round shaped item in his hand. Spectators are seen toward the upper right, while to the left, in the background, Gleizes has painted a town, a bridge and bellowing clouds or smoke. The rich juxtaposition of divers elements present within the piece are tied together in a Cubist idiom by an interlocking grid of diagonal lines, facets, intersecting plains and spheres. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Les Joueurs de football」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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