Lot 307
  • 307

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