Chess Set

1927

Man Ray
American, 1890–1976

Artist: Man Ray (Emmanuel Radnitzky)
Title: Chess Set
Origin: United States
Date: 1927
Medium: Brass, silver, and gold
Dimensions: 22 3/4 × 16 × 2 1/2 in. overall dimensions
Credit Line: Restricted gift of Mary P. Hines in memory of Harold H. Hines, Jr.; Samuel A. Marx Endowment
Reference Number: 1991.98
Copyright: © 2018 Man Ray Trust / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris

James N. Wood and Teri J. Edelstein, The Art Institute of Chicago: Twentieth-Century Painting and Sculpture (Chicago: The Art Institute, 1996), p. 60 (ill.).
Judith A. Barter, Sarah E. Kelly, et al. American Modernism at the Art Institute of Chicago: From World War I to 1955 (Chicago and New Haven, Conn.: The Art Institute of Chicago and Yale University Press, 2009), p. 94, cat. 30, p. 95 (ill.), pp. 96.
Stephanie D’Alessandro and Renée DeVoe Mertz, The Age of Picasso and Matisse: Modern Art at the Art Institute of Chicago (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2014), p. 123 (ill.).

Commissioned 1927 by Yashwant Rao II, Holkar Bahador, Maharaja of Indore (died 1961). Timothy Baum, by 1991; purchased by the Art Institute, 1991.