Artist unknown
active mid-20th century
Max Ernst and His Chess Set at the Chess Exhibition, "The Imagery of Chess"
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Artist unknown
active mid-20th century1945
Max Ernst and His Chess Set at the Chess Exhibition, "The Imagery of Chess"
Artist unknown active mid-20th century →gelatin silver (developing-out-paper) prphotographic process
Date
1945
Medium
Gelatin silver print
Dimensions
23.7 × 18.9 cm (9 3/8 × 7 1/2 in.)
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Location
Chicago, IL
Credit
Gift of Patricia and Frank Kolodny in memory of Julien Levy
In the summer of 1944, gallery owner Julien Levy, his wife Muriel, and the artist couple Max Ernst and Dorothea Tanning rented a house together in Great River, Long Island. While there, they played a prodigious amount of chess. Levy and Ernst, later joined by artist Marcel Duchamp, conceived of an exhibition on the game, and “The Imagery of Chess” opened at Levy’s gallery in December 1944. In this press photograph, Ernst poses with his now–famous wood chess set, shown here in stained boxwood, one of three he made specifically for Levy’s exhibition.
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