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Marcel Duchamp

Pocket Chess Set

1944

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Recently conserved with funds from the Institute of Museum and Library Services.

  • Artist Marcel Duchamp (American, b. France, 1887–1969)
  • Title Pocket Chess Set
  • Date 1944
  • Medium Leather case with plastic pieces
  • Edition description ed. 25
  • Dimensions unframed | 8 5/8 x 3/8 in. (closed)
    unframed | 6 1/2 x 8 5/8 x 3/8 in. (open)
  • Credit line Gift of the Betty Parsons Foundation, 1985
  • Object number WU 1985.10.1
  • Currently on View Gertrude Bernoudy Gallery, Room 4

Artists in Exile: European Surrealists in the US during and after World War II
Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, Washington University in St. Louis, 09/01/2023

Designing Chessmen: A Taste of the Imagery of Chess
World Chess Hall of Fame, 09/29/2016 - 03/12/2017

Red
Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, Washington University in St. Louis, 09/20/2013 - 01/06/2014

Models and Prototypes
Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, Washington University in St. Louis, 10/25/2006 - 12/31/2006

Teaching Gallery exhibition
Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, Washington University in St. Louis, 01/17/2003 - 03/27/2003

Caught By Politics: Art of the 1930s and 1940s
Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, Washington University in St. Louis, 01/19/2001 - 03/18/2001

1985
Betty Parsons Foundation

Inscription Inside, lower left corner:

Inscription Lower corner, on leather:

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