Portrait of Chess Players depicts Duchamp’s brothers, Raymond and Jacques, sitting across from each other playing chess. Marcel painted their profiles repetitively as if he was portraying the ...

Marcel Duchamp, the outstandingly influential ... He went on to pretend to abandon art and devote the rest of his life to chess, while secretly continuing to make art. While Duchamp’s contemporaries ...

On the wintry streets of Manhattan, the foot traffic to see the greatest art exhibition in America had been discouragingly slow. The 1913 “Armory Show” had opened on February 17. It had begun with a ...

partly by the hypnotic character of the chess pieces and machines, partly by the way it has to be seen: up close, to avoid the distraction of the environment seen through it. Seen this way, it draws ...