John Lavery, "The Chess Players"; oil on canvas (1929)
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Leo Tolstoy playing chess with the son of Vladimir Chertkov who took this picture, 1907
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John Singer Sargent
The Chess Game, 1907
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The Chess Players by Thomas Eakins (1911)
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Likely by Antoine-François-Jean Claudet, possibly Nicolaas Henneman, The Chess Players; salted paper print [c.1845]
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Albertus Pictor, Death playing chess, wall painting in a church in Täby, Sweden, 1480
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Photograph of Duchamp playing chess, circa 1930s
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Walter Benjamin and Bertolt Brecht playing chess
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Showgirls playing chess
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Inmates playing chess from their prison cells, by Cornell Capa, 1972
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Gianni Toso Venice
About 1981
Flameworked glass figures; cut and assembled glass
The pieces in Gianni Toso’s Chess Set, made about 1981, are Jewish and Roman Catholic worshippers. The kings are a rabbi and a bishop.
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Wonderful thread.
Would add Picasso's Chess as well:
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Of course. Didn't think about it. Thanks.
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Obviously winning!
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