De ou par Marcel Duchamp ou Rrose Sélavy, Boîte-en-Valise (From or by Marcel Duchamp or Rrose Sélavy, Box in a Valise)

About this artwork

Status

On View, Gallery 289

Department

Ryerson and Burnham Libraries Special Collections

Artist

Marcel Duchamp

Title

De ou par Marcel Duchamp ou Rrose Sélavy, Boîte-en-Valise (From or by Marcel Duchamp or Rrose Sélavy, Box in a Valise)

Place

Paris (Object made in:)

Date  Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.

1941

Medium

Brown leather valise with handle containing sixty-nine miniature replicas, printed reproductions and one original, Sonate,1938, hand-colored collotype

Inscriptions

pour Mary Reynolds ce no. 0 de vingt boîtes-en-valise contenant chacune 69 items et un original et par Marcel Duchamp

Dimensions

case (closed): 3 11/16 × 15 3/16 × 16 1/4" (9.4 × 38.5 × 41.2 cm); overall (opened): 15 3/4 × 15 3/16 × 36 1/8" (40 × 38.5 × 91.7 cm)

Credit Line

Mary Reynolds Collection, Ryerson & Burnham Libraries

Reference Number

2019.158

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