De ou par Marcel Duchamp ou Rrose Sélavy

About this artwork

Status

Currently Off View

Department

Ryerson and Burnham Libraries Special Collections

Artist

Marcel Duchamp

Title

De ou par Marcel Duchamp ou Rrose Sélavy

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 and 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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