man ray and marcel duchamp play chess. duchamp referred to man ray as a third-rate wood pusher. haha! i’m not even third-rate yet.

still from the 1924 film entr’acte by rené clair

ok, that’s my last chess-related art post. for now.

man ray

chess set, 1926

thirty-two silver alloy chess pieces with oxidizes

photograph of yves tanguy by man ray.

Yves Tanguy: French-born American painter. Originally a merchant seaman, he was impelled to take up painting after seeing pictures by de Chirico and in 1925 joined the Surrealist group. In 1939 he emigrated to the USA, where he lived for the rest of his life, marrying the American Surrealist painter Kay Sage in 1940 and becoming an American citizen in 1948. Tanguy’s most characteristic works are painted in a scrupulous technique reminiscent of that of Dalí, but his imagery is highly distinctive, featuring half marine and half lunar landscapes in which amorphous nameless objects proliferate in a spectral dream-space.