Magritte as Chess Artist

As this series on AI comics slides into the second quarter of the year, let's go back to the post that started it off at the beginning of the first quarter: Surrealist Chess (January 2025). There I wrote,

Somewhere in the back of my head was a factoid that Magritte played chess and sometimes incorporated the game into his paintings.

From that post I determined that he was indeed a chess player. Now I'm sure that he was also a chess artist.

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The thumbnail in the lower left of the composite image was the first example of Magritte's artwork that led me to believe he was interested in chess as a subject for his art. It shows a rider on a horse and is titled 'The Lost Jockey'. For other examples, see The Lost Jockey (Le jockey perdu) 1926 Collage by Rene Magritte (renemagritte.org).