Noguchi Chess Set Jewelry The unobtrusive backlight aids legibility

The unobtrusive backlight aids legibility

polished copper

33"\ Blade L:2

Box Includes: • 3 Black ink - fine stroke • 2 - Blue ink - fine stroke • 2 - Red ink - medium stroke

Hatsukaichi City

Noguchi Chess Set Jewelry The unobtrusive backlight aids legibilityOf the many chess set designs made by major 20th century Modern artists few were both as innovative and deeply rooted in tradition as the Chess Set and Table ensemble created by Japanese American sculptor Isamu Noguchi for the 1944 Imagery of Chess exhibition at Julien Levy Gallery in New York, organized by Levy and artists Marcel Duchamp and Max Ernst. The wartime scarcity of quality materials both limited and inspired Noguchi. In his chess set