French Chess Sets
The Chess Game By Georges Croegaert
By Georges Croegaert
Located in New Orleans, LA
Church. In The Chess Game, elaborate furniture and exotic fabrics are set against lavish wall coverings
Category
19th Century Academic Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Vous serez consolés dans Jérusalem by Theo Tobiasse - Mixed media
By Théo Tobiasse
Located in London, GB
, Tobiasse painted and played chess with his father, the chessboard pattern becoming a regular motif in his
Category
1960s Modern Mixed Media
Materials
Canvas, Paper, Mixed Media
Two Hands, Mid Century Surrealist mixed media Signed/N (Gemini 20 Anselmino 61)
By Man Ray
Located in New York, NY
. His photographs, paintings, drawings, sculptures, films, and even a chess set were included in three
Category
1960s Surrealist Abstract Prints
Materials
Mixed Media, Screen, Engraving
H 27 in W 21 in D 0.5 in
"Le Retour (Return), " Color Lithograph after Painting by Rene Magritte
By René Magritte
Located in Milwaukee, WI
scene is set at night.
Art: 19.38 x 25.13 in
Frame: 33.36 x 39.63 in
René-François-Ghislain Magritte
Category
Early 2000s Surrealist Landscape Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Baden Baden, Casino
By LeRoy Neiman
Located in San Francisco, CA
at Deauville, France, and the Cannes Film Festival.
Quite consciously, he cast himself in the mold
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Screen
Left Bank Cafe, Paris
By LeRoy Neiman
Located in San Francisco, CA
at Deauville, France, and the Cannes Film Festival.
Quite consciously, he cast himself in the mold
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Screen
Prowling Leopard
By LeRoy Neiman
Located in San Francisco, CA
social panoramas like the horse races at Deauville, France, and the Cannes Film Festival.
Quite
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Modern Animal Prints
Materials
Screen
Chess Game Set French Israeli Surrealist Watercolor Gouache Painting
By Zvi Milshtein
Located in Surfside, FL
This is a large hand signed mixed media paiting on Arches French paper. A chess game encounter
Category
20th Century Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Watercolor, Gouache
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La Princesse et le Bouffon
By Théo Tobiasse
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist: Theo Tobiasse (French/Israeli, 1927-2012)
Title: La Princesse et le Bouffon
Year: 1978
Medium: Color lithograph
Edition: Numbered 60/175 in pencil
Paper: Wove
Image siz...
Category
Mid-20th Century Expressionist Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Creole Dancer
By (after) Henri Matisse
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
after Henri Matisse - Acrobat
Edition of 200
with the printed signature, as issued
80 x 60 cm
Posthumous edition after the original paper cut-out with stamp of the Succession Matisse...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Still-life Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Jeune femme à l’éventail (Young Girl with a Fan)
By James Tissot
Located in New Orleans, LA
Conjuring the brilliance of late 18th-century costume with infusions of 19th-century modernity, James Jacques Joseph Tissot’s Jeune femme à l’éventail illustrates the remarkable tech...
Category
19th Century Realist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Panel, Oil
"A Reverie During The Ball", 19th Century Oil on Canvas by Rogelio Egusquiza
By Rogelio de Egusquiza y Barrena
Located in Madrid, ES
ROGELIO DE EGUSQUIZA
Spanish, 1845 - 1915
A REVERIE DURING THE BALL
signed and dated "Rogelio Egusquiza, 1879" (lower right)
oil on canvas
21-3/4 X 33-5/8 inches (55 X 85cm.)
framed:...
Category
1870s Symbolist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Taroudant
Located in New Orleans, LA
Signed, inscribed and dated "R. Pinatel / Taroudant / 1926" (lower right)
Oil on panel
A stunning ode to the Moroccan landscape, this oil on panel was composed by the French Orienta...
Category
Early 20th Century Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Panel, Oil
Original Lithograph - Henri Matisse - Apollinaire
By Henri Matisse
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Original Lithograph - Henri Matisse - Apollinaire
Artist : Henri MATISSE
13 x 10 inches
Edition: 151/330
References : Duthuit-Matisse Catalogue raisonné 31
MATISSE'S BIOGRAPHY
YO...
Category
1930s Modern Portrait Prints
Materials
Linocut
"La Reconnaissance Infinie (The Infinite Recognition)" Litho after Rene Magritte
By René Magritte
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"La Reconnaissance Infinie (The Infinite Recognition)" is a color lithograph after the 1963 painting by Rene Magritte. Two of Magritte's bourgeois "little men" stand in the sky. Both...
Category
2010s Surrealist Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Les Bijoux Indiscrets
By René Magritte
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Les Bijoux Indiscrets
(The Indiscreet Jewels)
Color lithograph, 1962-3
As published in XXeme Siecle, 1963
From the edition issued by San Lazarro unsigned for the album XXeme Siècle N...
Category
1960s Surrealist Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
Large French Judaica Lithograph Carborundum Etching Jewish Hebrew Embossing
By Théo Tobiasse
Located in Surfside, FL
Theo Tobiasse
Suite: Shavuot Festival
Year: 1984
Medium: Original carborundum embossed etching lithograph in colors on Arches paper (deckle edged paper)
Signature: Hand signed by t...
Category
1970s Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching, Lithograph
Pair Of Keith Haring Screen Prints on Paper, Signed
By Keith Haring
Located in Waxahachie, TX
DESCRIPTION: (2 Pc) Pair of framed vintage Keith
Haring screen prints on paper. Includes:
(1 Pc) Keith Haring screenprint on paper. "Untitled
(Cup Man"), 1989.
(1 Pc) Keith Haring sc...
Category
Vintage 1980s American Post-Modern Prints
Materials
Paper
Renaissance by Tiffany & Co Sterling Silver Flatware Set 156 Pcs Herbst Estate
By Tiffany & Co.
Located in Big Bend, WI
Superb Renaissance by Tiffany & Co sterling silver Flatware set - 156 pieces. This multi-motif pattern was designed by Paulding Farmhan and was introduced in the year 1905. This set ...
Category
Early 20th Century Sterling Silver
Materials
Sterling Silver
H 0.1 in W 0.1 in D 0.1 in
Every Day - Magritte lithograph, limited edition, surrealistic landscape
By René Magritte
Located in Hamburg, DE
"Every Day" is a limited edition (31/100) fine art lithograph from Belgian surrealist artist René Magritte's work of the same name. It depicts in his typical surrealist style a mou...
Category
1960s Surrealist Landscape Prints
Materials
Lithograph
H 21.26 in W 2.76 in D 0.79 in
"Le Bouquet tout fait (The Ready-made Bouquet), " Lithograph after Rene Magritte
By René Magritte
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Le Bouquet tout fait (The Ready-made Bouquet)" is a color lithograph after a 1954 original painting by Rene Magritte. A bourgeois "little man" faces away from the viewer looking tow...
Category
2010s Surrealist Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
19Thc Folky American Indian Totem Pole
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This amazing antique American Indian totem pole came from a trading post in New Mexico originally.We obtained it from a Folk art collection in California. It is in great original con...
Category
Antique Late 19th Century American Adirondack Native American Objects
Materials
Wood
Au Cirque - Post Impressionist Oil, Figures & Horse at Circus by Marcel Cosson
By Jean-Louis-Marcel Cosson
Located in Marlow, Buckinghamshire
Signed oil on board circa 1930 by French post impressionist painter Jean-Louis-Marcel Cosson. The piece gives a behind the scenes look at a French circus. The ringmaster, dressed in ...
Category
1930s Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
French Vintage Screen Divider with Three Panels
Located in LA CIOTAT, FR
A delightful little 18th century-style three-sectional room divider, crafted from fabric stretched over a wooden frame and skilfully printed with a deliberate reproduction of a nicel...
Category
20th Century French Louis XVI Screens and Room Dividers
Materials
Fabric, Wood
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Chess Game Rubinstein Nimzowitsch Set French Israeli Surrealist Aquatint Etching
By Zvi Milshtein
Located in Surfside, FL
This is numbered by hand in pencil and signed in pencil. A famous chess encounter Akiba Rubinstein
Category
20th Century Expressionist Portrait Prints
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
Portrait of Jan van Reynegom (1584-1640) date 1612; Antique Oil Painting
Located in London, GB
faithful reflections of the sitter's own clothing and artists portrayed their clients in the manner set out
Category
17th Century Old Masters Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
H 30.71 in Dm 25.6 in
NUDE IN RED
By Giacomo de Pass
Located in Los Angeles, CA
the Moulin de Peymeinade in the South of France. He sets out on an unusual course encouraged by his
Category
1970s Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Sandy Koufax (Signed by Sandy Koufax)
By LeRoy Neiman
Located in Missouri, MO
contests, as well as social panoramas like the horse races at Deauville, France, and the Cannes Film
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Portrait Prints
Materials
Lithograph
The Chess Players
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
30, 1840 in Paris and died July 26, 1902 in Paris, is a French painter and playwright.
He began an
Category
1880s Academic Interior Paintings
Materials
Oil
The Imagery of Chess.
By Marcel Duchamp
Located in New York, NY
and "French" sets used in everyday chess and tournament play.
Category
1940s More Art
Materials
Paper
The Imagery of Chess.
By Marcel Duchamp
Located in New York, NY
and "French" sets used in everyday chess and tournament play.
Category
1940s More Art
Materials
Paper
The Imagery of Chess.
By Marcel Duchamp
Located in New York, NY
and "French" sets used in everyday chess and tournament play.
Category
1940s More Art
Materials
Paper
The Imagery of Chess.
By Marcel Duchamp
Located in New York, NY
differed from the traditional and formal Staunton and "French" sets used in everyday chess and tournament
Category
1940s More Art
Materials
Paper
Giacomo de Pass Fantastical Painting, Dated 1971
By Giacomo de Pass
Located in Larchmont, NY
Peymeinade in the South of France. He sets out on an unusual course encouraged by his friend and gallerist
Category
1970s Surrealist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Munich, Olympic 1972, Mark Spitz
By LeRoy Neiman
Located in San Francisco, CA
all seven, and set a world record in every one. Mark Spitz held the record for most gold medals won at
Category
Late 20th Century American Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Screen
Diamond Head, Hawaii
By LeRoy Neiman
Located in San Francisco, CA
at Deauville, France, and the Cannes Film Festival.
Quite consciously, he cast himself in the mold
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Screen
Jockey of Hearts
By LeRoy Neiman
Located in Missouri, MO
at Deauville, France, and the Cannes Film Festival.
Quite consciously, he cast himself in the mold
Category
1970s American Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Rabbi Meditating Vintage Silver Gelatin Photograph Chabad Chassidim Judaica
By Arie Meiseles
Located in Surfside, FL
several languages, u. a. French and English. He had graduated from a business school and was an accountant
Category
1960s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Oil Portrait Painting by Alex De Andreis
By Alex De Andreis
Located in Gallatin, TN
An original oil portrait of a cavalier by highly regarded French artist Alex De Andreis (1871
Category
Mid-19th Century Naturalistic Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Untitled
By Rafał Olbiński
Located in Manhattan, NY
entitled Art at the Turn of the Century.
In 2002 his set design debut for the Opera Company of
Category
1960s Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
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French Chess Sets For Sale on 1stDibs
There is a broad range of french chess sets for sale on 1stDibs. Finding the perfect modern, Expressionist or Surrealist examples of these works for your space is difficult — today, we have a vast range of variations and more on offer. These items have been made for many years, with versions that date back to the 20th Century alongside those produced as recently as the 21st Century. You can search the french chess sets that we have for sale on 1stDibs by color — popular works were created in bold and neutral palettes with elements of beige, black, brown and gray. These artworks have been a part of the life’s work for many artists, but the versions made by Leroy Neiman, Marcel Duchamp, Zvi Milshtein, René Magritte and Théo Tobiasse are consistently popular. The range of these distinct pieces — often created in screen print, mixed media and paper — can elevate any room of your home. Large french chess sets can be an attractive addition to some spaces, while the smaller iterations available — each spanning 7.75 inches in width — may make for a better choice for a more modest living area.
How Much are French Chess Sets?
The average selling price for french chess sets we offer is $5,300, while they’re typically $1,200 on the low end and $30,298 for the highest priced.
Questions About French Chess Sets
- What is a gilded chess set?1 Answer1stDibs ExpertApril 5, 2022A gilded chess set is a game set that includes a board and chess pieces that are highly decorative. Traditionally, the word gilded indicates something covered in gold. However, for chess sets, it can describe any pieces that feature decorative embellishments, such as carvings or inlays. You'll find a selection of antique and vintage chess sets on 1stDibs.
- Where is the oldest chess set?1 Answer1stDibs ExpertApril 5, 2022Pieces from the oldest known chess set are on display at the State Museum of Culture History of Uzbekistan in Samarkand, Uzbekistan. The seven figurines are known as the Afrasiab chessmen and date back to the 6th to 8th centuries. Shop a range of antique chess sets on 1stDibs.
- 1stDibs ExpertJune 15, 2023The name of the oldest European chess set is the Venafro Chess Set. Experts estimate that artisans produced the set sometime between 885 to 1017 CE, and archaeologists discovered it in a Roman tomb in 1932. On 1stDibs, find a variety of chess sets from some of the world’s top sellers.