Marcel Duchamp

Property from a Distinguished New York Collection

Marcel Duchamp

1887 - 1968

The Chess Players (Schwartz 621)

signed in pencil, dated and inscribed épreuve d'artiste and For Joseph Solomon

etching on handmade paper

plate: 17⅜ by 22⅞ in. 442 by 580 mm.

sheet: 20¼ by 26⅛ in. 514 by 665 mm.

Executed in 1965; this impression is one of ten artist's proofs aside from the numbered edition of 50, published on the occasion of the exhibition Hommage à Caïssa at Cordier & Ekstrom, New York.