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- Sale 5918
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Dec 8 | 6:00 AM EST
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Sale 5918
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| Philadelphia
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Estimate$3,000 – $5,000
Original wood box complete with thirty-two playing pieces
The pieces: stained and ebonized maple
The interior lid stamped: "HARTWIG/GES.GESCH."
The two Queens stamped: "GES.GESCH."
Literature
Bauhaus-Archiv, Experiment Bauhaus, (1988), pp. 400–01 (for a similar example)
Herbert Bayer, Walter Gropius, and Ise Gropius eds., Bauhaus 1919-1928, (1938), pg. 44 (for a similar example)
Magdalena Droste and Bauhaus Archiv, Bauhaus: 1919–1933, (1993), pg. 94 (for a similar example)
Magdalena Droste and Peter Hahn, et al., eds., Bauhaus Archive Berlin: The Collection, (1999), pp. 88, 90 (for a discussion of the artist and a similar example)
Jeannine Fiedler and Peter Feierabend, Bauhaus, (2000), pp. 406, 417, 633 (for similar examples)
Larry List, "Joseph Hartwig's Bauhaus Chess Set: Dr Zilboorg's Contribution," in The Imagery of Chess Revisited, (2005). pp. 55-60
Provenance
Acquired in Germany
Thence by descent to Private Collection, Main Line, Pennsylvania
