About this artwork
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Status
- On View, Gallery 396
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Department
- Modern Art
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Artist
- Marcel Duchamp
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Title
- Pocket Chess Set
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Place
- United States (Object made in)
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Date
- 1944
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Medium
- Rectified readymade (one of about 25 unnumbered examples): pocket chessboard in leather, celluloid, and pins
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Inscriptions
- Signed and dated on chessboard, l.l.: “Marcel Duchamp/1944”
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Dimensions
- 6 5/16 × 4 1/8 in. (16 × 10.5 cm)(closed); 6 5/16 × 8 5/8 in. (16 × 22 cm)(open)
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Credit Line
- Through prior gift of Mrs. Gilbert W. Chapman
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Reference Number
- 2011.124
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Copyright
- © 2018 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris / Succession Marcel Duchamp
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