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Modern and Contemporary Art
Artist: Marcel Duchamp, American, born France, 1887–1968
Pocket Chess Set
1943
Leather pocket chessboard, celluloid pieces, and pins in a black leather wallet
16.5 × 11.4 × 1.3 cm (6 1/2 × 4 1/2 × 1/2 in.)
other (open): 16.5 × 22.2 × 0.6 cm(6 1/2 × 8 3/4 × 1/4 in.)
other (open): 16.5 × 22.2 × 0.6 cm(6 1/2 × 8 3/4 × 1/4 in.)
Gift of the Estate of Katherine S. Dreier
1953.6.221
Status:
Culture:
American, French
Period:
20th century
Classification:
Sculpture
Bibliography:
Ruth L. Bohan et al., The Société Anonyme: Modernism for America, ed. Jennifer Gross, exh. cat. (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 2006), 32, 126, fig. 1, 8.
Paul B. Franklin et al., Étant donné: Marcel Duchamp, Katherine S. Dreier, and La Société Anonyme, Inc. (Paris: Association pour l’étude de Marcel Duchamp, 2009), 103, ill.
Note: This electronic record was created from historic documentation that does not necessarily reflect the Yale University Art Gallery’s complete or current knowledge about the object. Review and updating of such records is ongoing.