Designs for Chessmen

Marcel Duchamp · c. 1920

You're looking at Designs for Chessmen — a drawing by Duchamp, around nineteen twenty. The piece is ink, pencil, and relief printing on paper, about 22 by 23 centimeters. You can pick out the collage of cut paper.

Medium Ink, pencil, and relief printing on paper · Dimensions 8 5/8 x 9" (21.9 x 22.9 cm) each · Credit Katherine S. Dreier Bequest

Hanging beside it in The Steven and Alexandra Cohen Center for Special Exhibitions: Duplicate of The Bride (supplementary suite, plate 4) from The Large Glass and Related Works, Vol. 1, Jean Crotti's Bust of Duchamp

Works like this one elsewhere in the museum: Letters (The Twenty-Six Series)

More by Marcel Duchamp here: Why Not Sneeze Rose Sélavy?, In Advance of the Broken Arm, Network of Stoppages, Landscape, The Chess Players, The Passage from Virgin to Bride