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 ...

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 ...

Marcel Duchamp, the outstandingly influential ... I have come to the personal conclusion that while all artists are not chess players, all chess players are artists." The theme of the "endgame" taken ...