Chess Pieces



Category: Musical composition
Dated: 1943
Instrumentation: Piano
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Manuscript: Draft and sketches (holograph, signed in ink. May be incomplete - 13 p.) in New York Public Library


This is a composition, written on an 8 by 8 black and white piece of cardboard, resembling a chess-board. Cage made it for a show of works related to Marcel Duchamp's interest in chess, at the Julien Levy Gallery in New York City.