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Materials:

paper collage, pen and India ink and pencil on paper (Untitled)

Size Notes:

untitled; box: 38.2 x 34.9 x 7.6 cm; Valise: 40.9 x 37.8 x 10.2 cm.

Edition:

Boîte-en-valise example no. XI/XX

Description:

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Markings:

signed, numbered and dedicated ‘pour Elizabeth Rockwell ce no. XI/XX de vingt boîtes-en-valise contenant chacune 69 items et un original et par Marcel Duchamp New York 1945’ (on the bottom of the box); stamped and numbered 'ORIN RAPHAEL XI/XX' (on the inner edge of the valise); stamped again 'ORIN RAPHAEL' (on the front side of the valise); signed again, dated and inscribed 'Marcel Duchamp 1944 N.Y.' (lower left of Untitled)

Exhibited:

Pittsburgh, Carnegie Museum of Art, Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Orin Raphael , December 1978-January 1979, no. 27. Philadelphia Museum of Art and Houston, The Menil Collection, Joseph Cornell/Marcel Duchamp…in Resonance , October 1998-May 1999, pp. 287 and 333, no. 29 (illustrated in color, p. 145). London, Tate Modern and Barcelona, Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya, Duchamp, Man Ray, Picabia , February-October 2008, p. 142, no. 188 (Outline of the East and Southeast United States illustrated in color). Arnolfini Bristol and London, Whitechapel Art Gallery, Museum Show , September-November 2011. Venice, Fondazione Prada, The Small Utopia , July-November 2012, p. 301, no. 23 (other versions illustrated in color, p. 23). London, Tate Gallery, 1999-2015 (on extended loan)

Literature:

R. Lebel, Marcel Duchamp , New York, 1959, pp. 54, 55, 82, 83 and 173-174, no. 173 (another example illustrated, pl. 109). C. Tomkins, The World of Marcel Duchamp , 1887-1968, New York, 1966, p. 156. A. Schwarz, The Complete Works of Marcel Duchamp , New York, 1970, pp. 511-513, no. 311a (another version illustrated, pp. 511-512). P. Cabanne, Dialogues with Marcel Duchamp , New York, 1971, p. 79. E. Bonk, Marcel Duchamp, The Box in a Valise: de ou par Marcel Duchamp ou Rose Sélavy , New York, 1989, pp. 257 and 298 (other examples illustrated, pp. 258-297). C. Tomkins, Duchamp: A Biography , New York, 1996, pp. 314-328. D. Ades, N. Cox and D. Hopkins, Marcel Duchamp , London, 1999, pp. 175 and 178. F.M. Naumann, Marcel Duchamp: The Art of Making Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction , New York, 1999, p. 142, no. 5.31 (another version illustrated in color). A. Schwarz, The Complete Works of Marcel Duchamp , New York, 2000, vol. I, pp. 47, 762 and 764, no. 484 (another example illustrated in color, p. 407, pl. 191; another example illustrated again, p. 763). F.M. Naumann, The Recurrent, Haunting Ghost: Essays on the Art, Life and Legacy of Marcel Duchamp , New York, 2012, pp. 136-157 (another example illustrated in color, p. 136). l. Witham, Picasso and the Chess Player: Pablo Picasso, Marcel Duchamp, and the Battle for the Soul of Modern Art , Hanover, 2013, pp. 167 and 183-184 (another example illustrated)

Provenance:

Orin and Elizabeth Raphael (Outlines Gallery), Pittsburgh (acquired from the artist, 1944). By descent from the above to the present owner