Marcel Duchamp
De ou par Marcel Duchamp ou Rrose Sélavy (La Boîte-en-valise), série B
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Marcel Duchamp
1887 - 1968
De ou par Marcel Duchamp ou Rrose Sélavy (La Boîte-en-valise), série B
signed Marcel Duchamp, dated N.Y. 1952 and inscribed chers Lewins cette boîte contient 68 items et toute mon affection. (on the interior of the box)
leather valise containing 68 miniature replicas and reproductions of works by Marcel Duchamp contained in a box
valise: 16 by 15 by 4 ¼ in. 40.7 by 38.1 by 10.8 cm.
Conceived in Paris between 1935-40 and executed in New York in 1952 in an edition of 60-75.
The authenticity of this work has been confirmed by Jacqueline Monnier-Matisse.
Mr. and Mrs. Albert Lewin, New York (acquired directly from the artist in 1952)
Parke-Bernet Galleries, Inc., New York, 17 December 1968, lot 162 (consigned by the estate of the above)
Peder Bonnier, Inc., New York
Beavan Davies Books, New York
Robert Shapazian, Los Angeles (acquired from the above in 1982)
Christie’s, New York, 11 November 2010, lot 132 (consigned by the estate of the above)
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner
Arturo Schwartz, The Complete Works of Marcel Duchamp, New York, 1970, no. 311a, pp. 511-13
Ecke Bonk, Marcel Duchamp, The Box in a Valise: de ou par Marcel Duchamp ou Rose Sélavy, New York, 1989, p. 299, illustrations of other examples in the series; pp. 258-97
Arturo Schwartz, The Complete Works of Marcel Duchamp, vol. II, New York, 1997, no. 484, p. 763, illustration in color of another example in the series; pp. 762-64, illustration of another example in the series
Francis M. Naumann, The Art of Making Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction, Ghent, 1999, pp. 142-43, fig. 5.32, illustration in color of another example in the series
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