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Man Ray

Philadelphia 1890 – 1976 Paris

Chess game for Juliet Man Ray – unique work. 1964

Ivory, carved, partially coloured; box (7.5 × 51.5 × 37.7 cm) from oak and wool. Chess pieces 10–5 cm (3 ⅞–2 in.).
This picture shows the following artwork:  Man Ray. Chess game for Juliet Man Ray – unique work. 1964.

Estimate:

EUR 50,000

 

- 70,000

USD 58,900

 

- 82,400

Sold for:

77,500 EUR (incl. premium)

Autumn Auctions 2017

ORANGERIE Selected Objects, Thursday, 30.11.2017

Information

Ivory, carved, partially coloured; box (7.5 × 51.5 × 37.7 cm) from oak and wool. Chess pieces 10–5 cm (3 ⅞–2 in.). Signed and dated on the underside of the white kings: Le ROi Man Ray 1964 KING. Catalogue raisonné: Accompained by a certificate by Timothy Baum dated 20 February 2015 (in copy).

Related literature: Larry's List (ed.): The Imagery of Chess Revisited. New York, 2005, p. 44f..

Juliet Man Ray (1911–1991) (1964 as a gift of the artist) / Their friend Elsa Combe-Martin (died 1998) / private collection, New York (1967 as a gift of the previous owner)

Jean-Hubert Martin: Man Ray. Objets de mon affection. Paris, 1983, p. 161

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