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Marcel Duchamp
The Chess Players (S. 621a)
Estimate
$15,000–20,000
Live 23 April, 3 PM ET
1965
Etching, on handmade paper, with full margins.
I. 17 3/8 x 22 7/8 in. (44.1 x 58.1 cm)
S. 20 1/4 x 26 1/2 in. (51.4 x 67.3 cm)
S. 20 1/4 x 26 1/2 in. (51.4 x 67.3 cm)
Signed, dated and annotated 'epreuve d'artiste' in pencil (one of 10 artist's proofs, the edition was 50, there was also an edition of 25 in bistre on Japan paper in Roman numerals), published on the occasion of the exhibition Hommage à Caïssa at Cordier & Ekstrom, New York, 1966, printed in France, sold to benefit the Marcel Duchamp fund of the American Chess Foundation, framed.