LOT DETAILS

Materials:

painted plaster

Size Notes:

3 1?2 x 5 3?8 x 4 3?4 in. (8.9 x 13.6 x 12 cm.) Conceived in 1950; this plaster version cast from the galvanized plaster original and painted by Man Ray in 1951

Description:

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Exhibited:

New York, Zabriskie Gallery, Conspiratorial Laughter: A Friendship, Man Ray and Duchamp, February-April 1995, p. 44, no. 47 (illustrated, p. 40). New York, Mitchell-Innes & Nash, Inner Self, February-March 1998. Miami, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sweet Dreams and Nightmares: Dada and Surrealism from the Rosalind and Melvin Jacobs Collection, March-May 2000, no. 5 (illustrated in color). New York, Pace/MacGill Gallery, The Long Arm of Coincidence: Selections from the Rosalind and Melvin Jacobs Collection, April-May 2009 (illustrated in color). New York, Kasmin Gallery, Brancusi & Duchamp: The Art of Dialogue, September-December 2018 (illustrated in color, p. 221).

Literature:

Le Surréalisme, même, no. 1, Paris, 1956 (another version illustrated on the cover). R. Lebel, Marcel Duchamp, New York, 1959, p. 175, no. 196 (original galvanized plaster version illustrated, pl. 120). P. Hulten, ed., Marcel Duchamp: Work and Life, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1993, p. 134 (original galvanized plaster version illustrated in color). C. Tomkins, Duchamp: A Biography, New York, 1996, pp. 377 and 385 (another cast illustrated, p. 386). D. Ades, N. Cox and D. Hopkins, Marcel Duchamp, London, 1999, p. 185, no. 145 (another cast illustrated). A. Schwarz, The Complete Works of Marcel Duchamp, New York, 2000, vol. II, p. 797, no. 536b (original versions illustrated; another cast illustrated in color, p. 417, pl. 201). F. Naumann, The Recurrent, Haunting Ghost: Essays on the Art, Life and Legacy of Marcel Duchamp, New York, 2012, pp. 190-198 (another cast illustrated, pp. 190, 193-195 and 198).

Provenance:

Acquired from Man Ray by the late owners, circa 1957.