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Pocket Chess Set

A work made of rectified readymade (one of about 25 unnumbered examples): pocket chessboard in leather, celluloid, and pins.
© 2018 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris / Succession Marcel Duchamp

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  • A work made of rectified readymade (one of about 25 unnumbered examples): pocket chessboard in leather, celluloid, and pins.

Date:

1944

Artist:

Marcel Duchamp
(American, born France, 1887–1968)

About this artwork

Status

On View, Gallery 396

Department

Modern Art

Artist

Marcel Duchamp

Title

Pocket Chess Set

Place

United States (Object made in)

Date  Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.

1944

Medium

Rectified readymade (one of about 25 unnumbered examples): pocket chessboard in leather, celluloid, and pins

Inscriptions

Signed and dated on chessboard, l.l.: “Marcel Duchamp/1944”

Dimensions

6 5/16 × 4 1/8 in. (16 × 10.5 cm)(closed); 6 5/16 × 8 5/8 in. (16 × 22 cm)(open)

Credit Line

Through prior gift of Mrs. Gilbert W. Chapman

Reference Number

2011.124

Copyright

© 2018 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris / Succession Marcel Duchamp

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