Man Ray Chess Set
Man Ray Chess Set
Internationally acclaimed Philadelphia born Man Ray, a giant of the Surrealist art era, was a devoted chess enthusiast like his colleague Marcel Duchamp. During his lifetime he designed a variety of sets, but with his very first set of 1920 he distilled the precepts of modernism into a simple wooden hand carved design deploying ideal geometrical forms, and it has become a classic of the form. The violin scroll styled knight - while alluding to the Fibonacci sequence of spiral extension - playfully recalls his iconic photograph of a seated nude woman from the back with violin f punch marks on her lower torso. Licensed for reproduction by the Man Ray Trust since 2012, the pieces are carved from beechwood by craft houses in Germany and Italy.
Size: 17"L 17"W 1"H
Includes the chess board + 32 Pieces in a gift box
Solid beech wood with clear lacquer and black painted finishes