LOT DETAILS

Materials:

sixty-four wooden squares nailed into and glued on plywood

Measurements:

27.56 in. (70.00 cm.) (height) by 27.56 in. (70.00 cm.) (width)

Edition:

unique

Markings:

bears signature on an added paper label (lower left); stamped with signature and address 'MARCEL DUCHAMP 11 RUE LARREY PARIS (5e) France' (on the reverse)

Exhibited:

Munich, Haus der Kunst, Der Surrealismus, 1922-1942, March-May 1972, p. 56, no. 137 (illustrated). Paris, Musée des arts décoratifs, Le Surréalisme, 1922-1942, May-September 1972, p. 65, no. 132 (illustrated). Philadelphia Museum of Art; New York, The Museum of Modern Art and The Art Institute of Chicago, Marcel Duchamp, September 1973-April 1974, p. 32, no. 186. New York, Gallery Yves Arman; Paris, Galerie Beaubourg and Geneva, Galerie Bonnier, Marcel Duchamp Plays and Wins, March 1984-April 1985, pp. 113 and 190, no. XXI (illustrated, p. 113). Antwerp, Ronny van de Velde, Marcel Duchamp, September-December 1991, no. 94 (illustrated in situ in the studio of the artist at 11, rue Larrey, Paris on the cover). Majorca, Fundació Pilar i Joan Miró, Amb l'adjuda dels meus amics, December 1992. Canberra, Australian National Gallery; Brisbane, Queensland Art Gallery and Sydney, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Surrealism, March-September 1993. Rome, Palazzo delle Esposizioni, DADA: l'arte della negazione, April-June 1994, p. 327, no. VIII/25 (illustrated). Schwerin, Staatliches Museum, Marcel Duchamp Respirateur, August- November 1995, p. 71 (illustrated). Munich, Kunsthalle der Hypo-Kulturstiftung, Das ewige Auge: Von Rembrandt bis Picasso, Meisterwerke aus der Sammlung Jan Krugier und Marie Anne Krugier-Poniatowski, July-October 2007, p. 428, no. 206 (illustrated in color, p. 429). Basel, Fondation Beyeler, Surrealism in Paris, October 2011-January 2012, p. 283 (illustrated in color, p. 53; illustrated again in situ in the studio of the artist at 11, rue Larrey, Paris, p. 52).

Literature:

"Marcel Duchamp Number" in View, ser. 5, no. 1, March 1945. R. Lebel, Marcel Duchamp, New York, 1967, p. 198, no. 218. A. Schwarz, The Complete Works of Marcel Duchamp, New York, 2000, vol. I, p. 741, no. 453 (illustrated). Etant donné Marcel Duchamp, no. 7, 2006, pp. 37 and 39 (illustrated in situ in the studio of the artist at 11, rue Larrey, Paris, pp. 38 and 243).

Provenance:

Isabelle Waldberg, Paris (acquired from the artist). Robert Lebel, Paris (acquired from the above and until 1972). Cordier & Ekstrom Inc., New York (acquired from the above). Xavier Fourcade, Inc., New York (by 1973); sale, Christie's, New York, 16 May 1985, lot 406. Fischer Fine Art Ltd., London (acquired at the above sale). Ronny van de Velde, Antwerp (by 1991). Galerie 1900-2000, Paris. Private collection, Switzerland (acquired from the above). Private collection, Paris (1999); sale, Christie's, London, 6 February 2006, lot 122. Jan Krugier, acquired at the above sale.