Table d'échecs (The Chessboard)
Jacques Villon (born Gaston Emile Duchamp), French, 1875 - 1963
1920
Etching on wove paper
Edition of 125
Plate: 7 15/16 × 6 5/16 in. (20.1 × 16 cm)
Sheet: 15 1/4 × 12 in. (38.7 × 30.5 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Purchased through the Hood Museum of Art Acquisitions Fund
2012.65
Geography
Place Made: France, Europe
Period
20th century
Object Name
Research Area
Not on view
Inscriptions
Blindstamp of Die Schaffenden
Course History
ARTH 16.2, Picasso: The Vollard Suite, Michael R. Taylor, Fall 2013
THEA 90, Contemporary Practices in U.S. Theater, Laurie Cherba Kohn, Fall 2013
WRIT 5, The Waste Land, Before and After, Melissa Zeiger, Fall 2013
Exhibition History
Duchamp Brothers and Sister: Works of Art, Francis M. Naumann Fine Art, New York, September 28 to November 23, 2012.
Cubism and Its Legacy, Churchill P. Lathrop Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, August 17-December 20, 2013.
Published References
Innis Howe Shoemaker, ed., Jacques Villon and His Cubist Prints, exh. cat., (Philadelphia: Philadelphia Museum of Art, 2001), pp. 46-47, plate 20; Daniel Robbins, ed., Jacques Villon, exh. cat., (Cambridge, Mass.: Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, 1976), pp. 89-90, figs. 68-69.
Provenance
The artist (1875-1963); to his widow, Gabrielle "Gaby" Villon; by descent to the artist's heirs; with Francis M. Naumann Fine Art, LLC, New York, New York; sold to present collection, 2012.
Catalogue Raisonne
Ginestet and Pouillon (1979): E.292
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