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  • Marcel Duchamp

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    MARCEL DUCHAMP

    (DUCHAMP, MARCEL). Duchamp, Marcel, Andre Breton & Arturo Schwarz. Antwerp, BELGIUM: Ronny Van de Velde, 1991. First Edition #715/850 Deluxe. Square Folio. Wooden Chessboard in Slipcase. Artist Monograph. Fine/No Jacket - As Issued. Various loose components housed in a facsimile 14 ½ x 14 ½ x 2 ¼" wooden chessboard in an unprinted black cloth-over-cardstock slipcase. Text in English. This luxe object was produced in conjunction with a significant 1991 Marcel Duchamp exhibition held at Ronny Van de Velde in Antwerp. The contents are: 1. a fiberboard volume containing reproductions of numerous Duchamp-related photographs and documents including a printed facsimile of H. Vuibert's "Les Anaglyphes Geometriques", Paris, Librairie Vuibert, 1912 (with 3D-glasses), plus a reproduction of a leaf from "The Blind Man No. 2 (P.B.T.)", 2. a original volume in wrappers containing articles on the artist by Andre Breton and Arturo Schwarz, with a loosely inserted reproduction of "Le Grand Verre", 3. an audio cassette of Duchamp's 1959 interview with Richard Hamilton along with his 1967 reading of "The Creative Act" housed in a plastic case with a miniature silicon reproduction of his "Priere a Toucher", 4. a giant leporello exhibition checklist cum catalogue detailing the one hundred and fifty-one works exhibited, and 5. the colophon with a postcard reproduction of "Marcel Duchamp at the age Eighty-Five" for "View"'s special Marcel Duchamp number laid in. A brand new, most handsome example of this elaborate, uncommon offering limited to eight hundred and fifty NUMBERED (715/850) copies in the publisher's hand-tooled wooden box - a facsimile of Marcel Duchamp's "Mental" Chess Board, black slipcase, and unprinted cardboard shipping box, as issued. Inventory Number: 026434

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    Filed Under: Artist Monographs, Dada and Surrealism, Marcel Duchamp, Limited Editions, Literature and Fiction

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