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Christos J. Palios - Chess, Coffee, & Chocolate, Photography 2020, Printed After

Christos J. Palios - Chess, Coffee, & Chocolate, Photography 2020, Printed After

By Christos J. Palios

Located in Greenwich, CT

All available sizes and editions: 21" x 30" Edition of 10 + 2 Artist Proofs 30" x 45" Edition of 8 + 2 Artist Proofs 40" x 58" Edition of 5 + 2 Artist Proofs 50" x 75" Edition of 4 +...

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2010s Contemporary Still-life Photography

Materials

Archival Pigment

Willie Nelson playing chess

Willie Nelson playing chess

By Scott Newton

Located in Austin, TX

Willie Nelson, taken at Willie's WHQ, Luck TX 2001 by Austin based photographer Scott Newton Signed limited edition print, printed on heavyweight cotton photo rag with a matte finis...

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21st Century and Contemporary Photorealist Portrait Photography

Materials

Archival Pigment

A Game of Chess - Contemporary Minimalist Street Photography, Black White
A Game of Chess - Contemporary Minimalist Street Photography, Black White

A Game of Chess - Contemporary Minimalist Street Photography, Black White

By Marcin Ryczek

Located in Hallein, AT

Edition of 5 in format 50x80 cm Photograph on Hahnemuhle Paper ; Digigraphie technology , Limited edition, 50x80 cm + 5 cm white margin The photo is signed and stamped on the front ...

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2010s Contemporary Black and White Photography

Materials

Photographic Paper

Willie Nelson playing chess

Willie Nelson playing chess

By Scott Newton

Located in Austin, TX

Willie Nelson, taken at Willie's WHQ, Luck TX 2001 by Austin based photographer Scott Newton Signed limited edition print, printed on heavyweight cotton photo rag with a matte finis...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Photorealist Portrait Photography

Materials

Archival Pigment

Mega Chess (Aarons Estate Edition)

Mega Chess (Aarons Estate Edition)

By Slim Aarons

Located in New York, NY

A giant game of chess in Santa Lucia, in the Lesser Antilles, 1993. Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity from the estate. Slim Aarons (...

Category

1990s Modern Landscape Photography

Materials

Lambda

Chinese Chess (China)

Wei XiangChinese Chess (China), 2021

$3,341Sale Price|20% Off

Chinese Chess (China)

By Wei Xiang

Located in MADRID, ES

China - Manipulated photography. A series of photographs manipulated with oil paint in which the artist Wei Chiang shows us different aspects of life in China, some of them surprisin...

Category

2010s Photorealist Black and White Photography

Materials

Mixed Media, Oil, Cardboard

Play Chess (China)

Wei XiangPlay Chess (China), 2021

$2,227Sale Price|20% Off

Play Chess (China)

By Wei Xiang

Located in MADRID, ES

China - Manipulated photography. A series of photographs manipulated with oil paint in which the artist Wei Chiang shows us different aspects of life in China, some of them surprisin...

Category

2010s Photorealist Black and White Photography

Materials

Mixed Media, Oil, Cardboard

Eve Babitz and Marcel Duchamp playing chess during Duchamp's Pasadena Art Museum
Eve Babitz and Marcel Duchamp playing chess during Duchamp's Pasadena Art Museum

Eve Babitz and Marcel Duchamp playing chess during Duchamp's Pasadena Art Museum

By Julian Wasser

Located in New York, NY

Artist Biography - Julian Wasser started his career in photography in the Washington DC bureau of the Associated Press where he met and accompanied the famous news photographer Wee...

Category

1960s Portrait Photography

Materials

Photographic Paper, Silver Gelatin

Marcel Duchamp Playing Chess with Eve Babitz, 1963 - Julian Wasser

Marcel Duchamp Playing Chess with Eve Babitz, 1963 - Julian Wasser

By Julian Wasser

Located in Chicago, IL

Marcel Duchamp and Eve Babitz, 1963, TIME Walter Hopps, the curator of Duchamp's landmark retrospective at The Pasadena Art Museum, helped direct this shot by setting up the chess b...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Black and White Photography

Materials

Silver Gelatin

Xanti Schawinsky and Marcel Duchamp playing Chess, New York

Xanti Schawinsky and Marcel Duchamp playing Chess, New York

By Ormond Gigli

Located in New York, NY

Xanti Schawinsky and Marcel Duchamp, New York, 1961 12 x 12 inches Edition of 1/4 Ormond Gigli (American, 1925-2019), famous in the 1950s for his photographs of theater, celebritie...

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1960s Modern Black and White Photography

Materials

C Print

Julian Wasser's Iconic Marcel Duchamp Playing Chess with Eve Babitz, 1963
Julian Wasser's Iconic Marcel Duchamp Playing Chess with Eve Babitz, 1963

Julian Wasser's Iconic Marcel Duchamp Playing Chess with Eve Babitz, 1963

By Julian Wasser

Located in Chicago, IL

Weegee was a major influence on Wasser's style of photography. After serving in the Navy in San Diego, the former AP copyboy became a contract photographer for Time magazine in Los A...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Black and White Photography

Materials

Silver Gelatin

Ted Williams - Gene Lees playing chess with Dizzy Gillespie, 1960, Printed After

Ted Williams - Gene Lees playing chess with Dizzy Gillespie, 1960, Printed After

By Ted Williams

Located in Greenwich, CT

Estate-stamped, gelatin-print silver Canadian music critic, biographer, lyricist and former journalist Gene Lees playing chess with American jazz trumpeter and bandleader, Dizzy Gil...

Category

2010s Contemporary Black and White Photography

Materials

Silver Gelatin

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Chess Parlor, Camaguey

Chess Parlor, Camaguey

By Jeffrey Milstein

Located in New York, NY

16 x 24" edition of 10 $1,500.00
22 x 33" edition of 5 $2,000.00

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Photography

Chess Game, Havana, Cuba

Chess Game, Havana, Cuba

By Jeffrey Milstein

Located in Los Angeles, CA

Two men playing chess on the sidewalk in Cuba

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Photography

Havana, 1993 (Castro/Chess)

Havana, 1993 (Castro/Chess)

By Alex Webb

Located in New York, NY

Alex Webb began working as a professional photojournalist in 1974 and in 1976 he joined Magnum Photos as an associate member. Prior to 1976 Webb studied history and literature at Har...

Materials

C Print

Chess Parlor Interior, Camagüey, Cuba

Chess Parlor Interior, Camagüey, Cuba

By Jeffrey Milstein

Located in Los Angeles, CA

Jeffrey Milstein is a Berkeley-trained architect-turned-photographer whose concurrent obsession with architecture, graphic design and flying informs his photographic work. In the ser...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Color Photography

Materials

Archival Pigment

Chess Parlor Exterior, Camagüey, Cuba

Chess Parlor Exterior, Camagüey, Cuba

By Jeffrey Milstein

Located in Los Angeles, CA

Jeffrey Milstein is a Berkeley-trained architect-turned-photographer whose concurrent obsession with architecture, graphic design and flying informs his photographic work. In the ser...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Color Photography

Materials

Archival Pigment

John Wayne Playing Chess Fine Art Print
John Wayne Playing Chess Fine Art Print

John Wayne Playing Chess Fine Art Print

By Paul Slade

Located in Las Vegas, NV

This color portrait features John Wayne, nicknamed "Duke", an American actor and filmmaker, and an Academy Award-winner for his role in "True Grit". This candid image features the st...

Category

1950s Color Photography

Materials

Archival Ink, Archival Paper, C Print, Archival Pigment

Marcel Duchamp And Eve Babitz playing Chess at the Pasadena Art Museum 1963

Marcel Duchamp And Eve Babitz playing Chess at the Pasadena Art Museum 1963

By Julian Wasser

Located in Beverly Hills, CA

Marcel Duchamp And Eve Babitz - Pasadena Art Museum 1963 Color Babitz and a black-suited Duchamp sit at a wood table in an art gallery, manipulating pawns and rooks. The image’s dea...

Category

1960s Modern Color Photography

Materials

Archival Pigment

Marcel Duchamp And Eve Babitz playing. Chess at the Pasadena Art Museum 1963

Marcel Duchamp And Eve Babitz playing. Chess at the Pasadena Art Museum 1963

By Julian Wasser

Located in Beverly Hills, CA

Marcel Duchamp And Eve Babitz - Pasadena Art Museum 1963 Color Archival Pigment Print Edition of 25 Signed by Julian Wasser Available in 16"x20", 20"x24" - inquire about larger size...

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1960s Modern Color Photography

Materials

Archival Pigment

Marcel Duchamp Playing Chess with Eve Babitz

Marcel Duchamp Playing Chess with Eve Babitz

By Julian Wasser

Located in Los Angeles, CA

"Marcel Duchamp Playing Chess with Eve Babitz" was originally photographed by Julian Wasser in 1963. Printed on Hahnemühle FineArt Baryta Satin (300 gsm, 100% α-Cellulose, white, sat...

Category

1960s Modern Black and White Photography

Materials

Satin Paper, Archival Pigment

Bob Dylan Playing Chess, Woodstock, NY

Bob Dylan Playing Chess, Woodstock, NY

By Daniel Kramer

Located in Los Angeles, CA

Bob Dylan Playing Chess, Woodstock, NY, 1964 30 x 40 in. (76 x 101 cm) Archival Pigment Print Edition of 25 The photographer Daniel Kramer is a photographer and filmmaker whos...

Category

Late 20th Century Portrait Photography

Chess, Coffee, & Chocolate (21" x 30")

Chess, Coffee, & Chocolate (21" x 30")

By Christos J. Palios

Located in Greenwich, CT

*OTHER SIZES: 31" x 45" 40" x 58" *PRICING (21" x 30"): Prints 1-3: $2,200.00 Prints 4-6: $2,500.00 Prints 7-9: $2,800.00 Print 10: $3,100.00 Narrative: This photograph belongs to ...

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21st Century and Contemporary Still-life Photography

Materials

Archival Pigment

1950s Photograph Mexican Chess Player by Raymond Groce
1950s Photograph Mexican Chess Player by Raymond Groce

1950s Photograph Mexican Chess Player by Raymond Groce

Located in New Windsor, NY

Excellent image and composition in black and white photography of a chess player taken in Mexico City, circa 1950.

Category

Vintage 1950s Mexican Mid-Century Modern Photography

Materials

Paper

Eve Babitz and Marcel Duchamp playing chess during Duchamp's Pasadena Art Museum
Eve Babitz and Marcel Duchamp playing chess during Duchamp's Pasadena Art Museum

Eve Babitz and Marcel Duchamp playing chess during Duchamp's Pasadena Art Museum

By Julian Wasser

Located in New York, NY

Julian Wasser Eve Babitz and Marcel Duchamp playing chess during Duchamp's 1963 11 x 14 inch gelatin silver print Edition 11 of 20 Signed on the back of the print Frame includes UV ...

Category

1960s Portrait Photography

Materials

Photographic Paper, Silver Gelatin

Mega Chess

Slim AaronsMega Chess, 1993

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Mega Chess

By Slim Aarons

Located in London, GB

A giant game of chess in Santa Lucia, in the Lesser Antilles.

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Color Photography

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How Much is a Chess Photography?

The price for an artwork of this kind can differ depending upon size, time period and other attributes — a piece of chess photography in our inventory may begin at $495 and can go as high as $6,500, while the average can fetch as much as $3,575.

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