Chess Set

1927

Man Ray
American, 1890–1976

Status: On View, Gallery 396
Department: Modern Art

Artist: Man Ray (Emmanuel Radnitzky)
Title: Chess Set
Place: United States (Artist's nationality:)
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.: 1927
Medium: Brass, silver, and gold; Case: wood, faux-leather, silk, cotton, iron alloy hinges, and copper alloy clasps
Edition: Unnumbered from an edition of 3
Dimensions: Installation dimensions variable; Case: 57.8 × 40.7 × 6.4 cm (22 3/4 × 16 × 2 1/2 in.)
Credit Line: Purchased with funds provided by Mary P. Hines in memory of Harold H. Hines, Jr.; Samuel A. Marx Endowment
Reference Number: 1991.98.1-2
Copyright: © 2018 Man Ray Trust / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris

Arturo Schwarz, Man Ray: The Rigour of Imagination (New York: Rizzoli, 1977), 203.
James N. Wood and Teri J. Edelstein, eds., The Art Institute of Chicago: Twentieth-Century Painting and Sculpture (Chicago: The Art Institute of Chicago, 1996), 60 (ill.).
Judith A. Barter, ed., American Modernism at The Art Institute of Chicago: From World War I to 1955 (Chicago: The Art Institute of Chicago and Yale University Press, 2009), 94–96, cat. 30 (color ill.).
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), 123 (ill.).
Manuel Segade, ed., Endgame: Duchamp, Chess and the Avant-Gardes, exh cat. (Barcelona: Fundació Joan Miró, 2016), 144.
Raphaèle Billé and Louise Curtis, eds. Moderne maharajah: un mécène des années 1930, exh. cat. (Paris: Musée des arts décoratifs, 2019), 24, (color ill.).

Paris, Musée des Arts décoratifs, Moderne Maharajah: un mécène des années 1930, Sept. 26, 2019–Jan. 12, 2020, no cat. no.

Commissioned in 1926 by Yashwant Rao II, Holkar Bahador, Maharaja of Indore (1908–1961), and realized by the artist in 1927; Timothy Baum, New York, by 1991 [correspondence in curatorial file]; purchased by the Art Institute, 1991.

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