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Pablo Picasso, Paris, autumn 1911
Technical Details
Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
13 × 16 1/8 in. (33 × 41 cm)
Style
Analytic Cubism
Decade
1910s
About This Work
The official Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY record identifies Chess as a Pablo Picasso painting, dated Paris, autumn 1911, in Oil on canvas. This catalog entry follows the holding institution’s title, material, date, dimensions, and object link rather than inferring undocumented subject matter or artist intent.
Chess is grouped here under Analytic Cubism for gallery navigation based on the date published by Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY. This period label is interpretive context, not a replacement for the cited primary object record. The institutional credit line is: Leonard A. Lauder Cubist Collection, Gift of Leonard A. Lauder, 2025.
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Valuation & Provenance
2026 Estimated Value
Public collection / market value not asserted
* Estimates are based on comparable auction results and market analysis. Not a formal appraisal.
Last Known Sale
No public auction record — held in permanent museum collection
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