Details
MAN RAY (1890-1976)
Chess set
signed, numbered and marked with monogram on the white king 'Man Ray 26/50'--signed again, dated and inscribed on the chess board 'Man Ray 1962 le Roi est a moi/la Reine est la tienne/la Tour fait un four/le Fou est comme vous/le Cavalier déraille/le Pion fait l'espion comme toute canaille/Fait de toutes piéces'--32 anodized copper chess pieces with polished and enameled brass chess board inlaid in a wooden presentation case
Overall size: 22½ x 39 3/8in. (57.1 x 100cm.)
Cast 1962-1966; number 32 in an edition of 50
Chess set
signed, numbered and marked with monogram on the white king 'Man Ray 26/50'--signed again, dated and inscribed on the chess board 'Man Ray 1962 le Roi est a moi/la Reine est la tienne/la Tour fait un four/le Fou est comme vous/le Cavalier déraille/le Pion fait l'espion comme toute canaille/Fait de toutes piéces'--32 anodized copper chess pieces with polished and enameled brass chess board inlaid in a wooden presentation case
Overall size: 22½ x 39 3/8in. (57.1 x 100cm.)
Cast 1962-1966; number 32 in an edition of 50
Provenance
Marcel Zerbib, Paris (acquired by the present owner)
Literature
A. Schwarz, Man Ray, The Rigour of Imagination, New York, 1977, pp. 203 and 204, no. 327 (original chess set illustrated, p. 217)
P. Sers, Man Ray, Objets de mon affection, Paris, 1983, p. 161 (another example illustrated)
P. Sers, Man Ray, Objets de mon affection, Paris, 1983, p. 161 (another example illustrated)