LOT DETAILS
Materials:
ebonised beechwood
Size Notes:
the pawn -- 7/8 in. (2.2 cm.) high
Description:
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Markings:
the queens stamped to the underside 'GES.GESCH.', box with paper label 'DAS BAUHAUS SCHACH SPIEL VON JOSEF HARTWIG', the underside with typed inventory label 'A.38.2206/Gropius'
Exhibited:
The Art of Chess, The Gilbert Collection at Somerset House, London, 28 June - 28 September 2003, p.24. The Imagery of Chess Revisited, The Noguchi Museum Exhibition, New York, 21 October 2005 - 5 March 2006.
Literature:
Hans & Barbara Holländer, Schach Partie Durch Zeiten und Welten, Museum Für Kunst und Gewerbe, Hamburg, 2005, fig. 320, page 311.
Provenance:
Originally owned by Walter Gropius and gifted to Reginald Isaacs, author of Gropius' biography. Purchased from the Isaacs family by the current owner.