1997 Roland-Garros Championships

Antonio Saura’s artwork is characterized by abstract styles, surrealist figures, and drawings in a palette of blacks, grays, and browns, with the occasional punctuation of bright colors. Saura is fascinated with distorted, tortured, suffering figures, and his players are represented as striving, powerful athletes during a heated contest. The confines of the court are alluded to by the stark lettering running across the center, representing the net separating the competitors.