Chess Board

1920

Jacques Villon

Associated Names
Jacques Villon

Artist, French, 1875 - 1963

The image features intersecting lines and grids, forming an intricate pattern of overlapping shapes. In the center is an abstract depiction of a distorted chessboard with black and white checkered pattern. Abstract representations of chess pieces such as a knight and a pawn are included. Surrounding the chessboard are parallel and diagonal lines creating a complex, overlapping pattern. The overall composition has an abstract quality with geometric interplay suggesting associations with objects like a closed book or an unfolding fan.
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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    etching in black on wove paper

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Aaron I. Fleischman

  • Dimensions

    plate: 20.1 x 16 cm (7 15/16 x 6 5/16 in.)
    sheet: 40.9 x 30.6 cm (16 1/8 x 12 1/16 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2001.52.1

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Ginestet/Pouillon 1979, no. E292

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Heinrich Neuerburg, Cologne (b. 1883) (Lugt 1344a). Aaron I. Fleischman, New York; gift to NGA, 2001.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

2004

  • Six Centuries of Prints and Drawings: Recent Acquisitions, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 2004 - 2005

Bibliography

1979

  • Ginestet, Colette de and Catherine Pouillon. Jacques Villon: les estampes et les illustrations: catalogue raisonne. Paris: Arts et Metiers Graphiques, 1979.

Inscriptions

by the artist, lower right in graphite: J.V.; by later hand, lower right in graphite: 5

Wikidata ID

Q76342727

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