Property from the Collection of Carlos Raúl Villanueva
Marcel Duchamp
De ou par Marcel Duchamp ou Rrose Sélavy (La Boîte-en-valise), série B
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November 19, 11:13 PM GMT
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100,000 - 150,000 USD
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Property from the Collection of Carlos Raúl Villanueva
Marcel Duchamp
1887 - 1968
De ou par Marcel Duchamp ou Rrose Sélavy (La Boîte-en-valise), série B
signed and inscribed cette boîte doit contenir 68 items et par Marcel Duchamp
68 miniature replicas and reproductions of works by Marcel Duchamp contained in a box
box: 15 ½ by 13 ¾ by 2 ⅝ in. 39.4 by 34.9 by 6.7 cm.
Conceived in Paris between 1935-40 and executed in New York between 1946-54 in an edition of 60-75.
The authenticity of this work has been confirmed by the Association Marcel Duchamp.
Rose Fried Gallery, New York
Acquired from the above 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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