Man Ray Chess Set Coasters Steel toolbox with camber lid

Steel toolbox with camber lid and top extendable handle

and the purification of art away from material realism and towards an emotional expression

the perfect dining-room or lounge ornament

make up a single element modeled in biscuit

Approximate Size: 19" X 26"

Man Ray Chess Set Coasters Steel toolbox with camber lidWith his long career of pioneering work in painting, sculpture and photography, Man Ray (1890 1976) can readily be regarded as one of the most influential artists of the 20th century. In this first design of his relating to chess from 1920, Man Ray abandoned all the overly classical and figurative characteristics used to identify the pieces. Instead, he composed them of the pure Euclidean geometric ideal forms cube, sphere, pyramid and cone. He still