OCTAVIO PAZ AND MARCEL DUCHAMP

Property from the Collection of Carlos Alberto Cruz

OCTAVIO PAZ AND MARCEL DUCHAMP

MARCEL DUCHAMP O EL CASTILLO DE LA PUREZA. MEXICO CITY: EDICIONES ERA, 1968

Two text volumes and 5 other items (as described below). Green buckram portfolio lettered in black; minor wear at extremities. Cardboard slipcase with chessboard pattern.

Octavio Paz and Marcel Duchamp. Marcel Duchamp o el castillo de la pureza. Mexico City: Ediciones Era, 1968

Octavio Paz's Duchamp boxIncluded in this collection are the following items: 2 text volumes, one a critical essay by Paz, the other a collection of Duchamp's writings selected by Paz and translated into Spanish by Tomas Segovia — a reproduction on celluloid of The Large Glass — color reproductions of three important paintings from 1912 — a black-and-white checked envelope containing 9 photographs of Readymades — a booklet titled Album Fotografico with chronology by Monique Fong Wust laid in — a portrait of Duchamp on cardboard with a cardboard stand.