The Secret of the Great Pyramid — artwork #10129 by JR · Paris, France

sticking collage black-and-white pyramid anamorphosis paste-up

The Secret of the Great Pyramid — Street art by JR in Paris

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JR, born in 1983 in Paris, is a French photographer and street artist who calls himself a "photograffeur". From 2004 he began pasting large-format black-and-white portraits on the walls of the Paris suburbs, then around the world. Winner of the TED Prize in 2011, he launched Inside Out the same year, a global participatory project that has since enabled more than 500,000 people to paste their port…

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Added 18/05/2026

A monumental 17,000 m² anamorphosis pasted by JR and 400 volunteers around the Louvre Pyramid from 26 to 31 March 2019, marking the 30th anniversary of I.M. Pei's structure. The trompe-l'oeil makes the pyramid appear to rise from a white quarry carved into the Cour Napoléon. The ephemeral piece was partly torn apart by visitors in under two days.

The artwork Le Secret de la Grande Pyramide is of type sticking. You can admire it in the city of Paris in France, more precisely here: Cour Napoléon, Musée du Louvre, 75001 Paris.

This sticking is also tagged as: collage, black-and-white, pyramid, anamorphosis, paste-up.

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The photo was published on 18-05-2026 by an unknown hunter.

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