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Man Ray, 1890-1976
Estimate
12,000 - 18,000 GBP
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Description
- Man Ray
- CHESS SET
- inscribed with the initials and numbered 14/25 on the red king
- a complete set of 32 pieces in anodised aluminium
- 6.2 by 35 by 35cm.; 2 3/8 by 13¾ by 13¾in.
- The original set was conceived in wood in 1920 and the present aluminium set was executed in 1947.
Literature
Arturo Schwarz, Man Ray: The Rigour of Imagination, 1977, no. 325, p. 203 (illus p. 217)
Exhibition catalogue, New York, The Isamu Noguchi Foundation and Garden Museum, Man Ray, 2005-6, p. 57, illustration of another example from the edition
Exhibition catalogue, New York, The Isamu Noguchi Foundation and Garden Museum, Man Ray, 2005-6, p. 57, illustration of another example from the edition