Lot Essay
Please note that this set is being sold with a wood case, and chess board that was later crafted by another hand for the present owners.
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Chess Set
Details
Man Ray (1890-1976)
Chess Set
stamped with the inital 'R' (at the top of the red and gold King pieces)
a complete set of 32 pieces in anodized aluminium
Height of playing pieces ranging from 1¼ in. (3.2 cm.) to 2 in. (5.0 cm.)
Original chess set conceived in wood, 1920; this set executed after 1945 during the artist's lifetime
Chess Set
stamped with the inital 'R' (at the top of the red and gold King pieces)
a complete set of 32 pieces in anodized aluminium
Height of playing pieces ranging from 1¼ in. (3.2 cm.) to 2 in. (5.0 cm.)
Original chess set conceived in wood, 1920; this set executed after 1945 during the artist's lifetime
Provenance
Hans and Frida Richter (gift from the artist, early 1950s).
By descent from the above to the present owners.
By descent from the above to the present owners.
Literature
A. Schwarz, Man Ray: The Rigour of Imagination, New York, 1977, no. 325 (another version illustrated p. 217; incorrectly numbered 324).
J.-M. Huber, B. Hermann, and R. Krauss, Man Ray, Objets de mon affection: sculptures et objets, catalogue raisonné, Paris, 1983, p. 161. no. 22 (two other versions illustrated, p. 161).
J.-M. Huber, B. Hermann, and R. Krauss, Man Ray, Objets de mon affection: sculptures et objets, catalogue raisonné, Paris, 1983, p. 161. no. 22 (two other versions illustrated, p. 161).