Cahiers d'Art

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France
Paris
Cahiers d'Art

Art publishing house. Gallery. Revue. Founded 1926. From the 1920s till today, Cahiers d’Art has maintained a gallery, exhibiting the artists it publishes.

Founded in 1926 by Christian Zervos at 14, rue du Dragon in the heart of Saint-Germain-des-Prés, Cahiers d'Art encompasses a publishing house, a gallery, and a Revue. The Cahiers d'Art Revue was entirely unique when it was introduced, and it still is: a revue of contemporary art defined by its combination of striking typography and layout, abundant photography, and juxtaposition of ancient and mod

ern art. Between the 1920s and the mid-1970s, Cahiers d'Art published ninety-seven issues of the Revue and more than fifty books on fine art and architecture, as well as the thirty-three volume catalogue raisonné of Pablo Picasso. After its acquisition and relaunch in 2012 by Staffan Ahrenberg, an editorial board comprised of Sam Keller, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Isabela Mora, and Staffan Ahrenberg was created. Cahiers d'Art has since published several new Revues and art books devoted to Ellsworth Kelly, Rosemarie Trockel, Hiroshi Sugimoto, Alexander Calder, Pablo Picasso, Thomas Schütte, Gabriel Orozco, Joan Miró, Lucas Arruda, Ai Weiwei, Arthur Jafa, Frank Gehry, Christo, and others. Cahiers d'Art continues to fulfill its mission to be the cultural bridge between the avant-garde of Picasso, Duchamp, and Le Corbusier, and the leading artists and architects of our time.

02/03/2026

THE CALDER CHESS SET
Published by Cahiers d’Art in collaboration with the Calder Foundation.
Now available on our Online Store. ♟️Link on bio.

Calder originally conceived this chess set in 1944 for The Imagery of Chess, a groundbreaking exhibition organized by Marcel Duchamp and Max Ernst at Julien Levy Gallery in New York. The artist’s design challenges the game’s traditional visual language, raising the queens a full head above the kings, while four oversized knights with elongated snouts disrupt the board, command attention, and invite a reconsideration of the game’s prescribed hierarchy. Departing from traditional black and white, Calder selected vivid red and blue for the chessmen, with a bright yellow case to house them when not in play.

Meticulously recreated from high resolution 3-D scans of the original and precisely milled from solid wood, the Calder Chess Set preserves the texture, scale, and spirit of the original version Calder created in 1944.

All works by Alexander Calder copyright © 2025 Calder Foundation, New York
The Calder Chess Set, 2025 © 2025 Calder Foundation, New York / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York © 2025 Cahiers d‘Art

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