Marcel Duchamp
Pocket Chess Set
1944
On View in Gertrude Bernoudy Gallery, Room 4
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Recently conserved with funds from the Institute of Museum and Library Services.
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Artist
Marcel Duchamp
(American, b. France, 1887–1969)
- Title Pocket Chess Set
- Date 1944
- Medium Leather case with plastic pieces
- Edition description ed. 25
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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
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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 (St. Louis, Missouri), 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: Marcel Duchamp N.Y. 1944
Inscription Lower corner, on leather: PINGRIP
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