[Photo] Portrait de Marcel Duchamp jouant aux échecs

Name: [Photo] Portrait de Marcel Duchamp jouant aux échecs
SKU: 23983
Author: [DUCHAMP] André Gomès

[Strasbourg, circa 1938].

1 black and white print (175 x 235 mm), stamped on the verso “Paris-Montparnasse Vente André Gomès,” with original negative on the verso, in a sleeve “photographie André Gomès.”

The photograph is accompanied by the original negative (45 x 60 mm) mounted on the verso in its original glass slide with the studio stamp “photographie André Gomès,” and by a negative with measurements (100 x 120 mm).

In 1924, Duchamp became a member of the Cercle rouennais d’échecs, in Rouen, his parents’ city, before joining the Groupe des joueurs d’échecs de Nice — one of the strongest teams — with which he took part in the “Paris Tournoi international amateur d’échecs” and the French championship in Strasbourg, held at the Café Broglie. It was in this café that he was again photographed, once more in front of a chessboard.

André Gomès and his wife Henriette were close to many artists, notably Miró, Picasso and Duchamp. Henriette, who had begun her career at Pierre Loeb’s gallery in 1934, married the young photographer in 1938, before opening her own gallery, which she was forced to leave during the Occupation, seized as Jewish property. Both of them joined the Resistance. After the war, the couple opened the Galerie Henriette at 6 rue du Cirque.

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