Rrose Sélavy

About this artwork

Status

On View, Gallery 289

Department

Ryerson and Burnham Libraries Special Collections

Artist

Mary Reynolds

Title

Rrose Sélavy

Place

Paris (Object made in:)

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1939

Medium

Full sienna, pink, and beige goatskin with cotton cord, grey-card onlays with trial stamps of a typographic plate made for Duchamp's Box in a Valise. Endpapers printed in pochoir with fern-leaf pattern and hand-drawn insects in black ink

Inscriptions

Inscription on half title page: Chère Mary, Marcel

Dimensions

17.1 × 12.2 × 1.1 cm (6 3/4 × 4 13/16 × 7/16 in.)

Credit Line

Mary Reynolds Collection, Ryerson & Burnham Libraries

Reference Number

2019.172

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