Chess Problems and Master Games, Pair of Late 19th/Early 20th C. Ledgers Turned Chess Scrapbooks antique carved madonna Commissioned in 1934

Commissioned in 1934

I'll never leave behind a old art class painted color wheel

and some dark spots in the crevices on the top of the head (hair

which supported and promoted the work of Haitian artists

bright jade green on the exterior

Chess Problems and Master Games, Pair of Late 19th/Early 20th C. Ledgers Turned Chess Scrapbooks antique carved madonna Commissioned in 1934I'm not much of a chess player, but I love the game as the ultimate strategy sport, and as also as a metaphor. And as a huge fan of Duchamp, a chess devotee whose whole oeuvre can be read as a series of chess moves, all things chess related feel Duchampian to me. So I had to bring these home, ledgers turned chess scrapbooks, which sold me on their covers alone: "Chess Problems, 1892" and "Chess Games Played by the Masters in International Tournaments,