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Pocket Chess Set by Marcel Duchamp
Art Institute of Chicago

Pocket Chess Set

Marcel Duchamp · 1944

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Artist

Marcel Duchamp

Date

1944

Medium

Rectified readymade (one of about 25 unnumbered examples): pocket chessboard in leather, celluloid, and pins

Dimensions

6 5/16 × 4 1/8 in. (16 × 10.5 cm)(closed); 6 5/16 × 8 5/8 in. (16 × 22 cm)(open)

Classification

sculpture

Department

Modern Art

Culture / origin

United States

Credit line

Through prior gift of Mrs. Gilbert W. Chapman

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