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Materials:

paper, wood and cloth-covered box

Size Notes:

overall: 15 3?4 x 14 3?4 x 3 1?2 in. (400 x 375 x 90 mm.)

Description:

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Exhibited:

Miami, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sweet Dreams and Nightmares: Dada and Surrealism from the Rosalind and Melvin Jacobs Collection, March-May 2000. New York, Pace/MacGill Gallery, The Long Arm of Coincidence: Selections from the Rosalind and Melvin Jacobs Collection, April-May 2009. Paris, Galerie Marion Meyer, Claude Rutault, November 2009-January 2010.

Literature:

R. Lebel, Marcel Duchamp, New York, 1959, pp. 54-55, 82-83 and 173-174, no. 173 (another example illustrated, p. 109). C. Tomkins, The World of Marcel Duchamp, New York, 1966, p. 156. A. Schwartz, The Complete Works of Marcel Duchamp, New York, 1970, pp. 511 and 513, no. 311a (another version illustrated). 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:

Acquired from the artist by the late owners, November 1959.