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Marcel Duchamp

Blainville 1887 – 1968 Paris

„Cover for „A l'Infinitif““ (The White Box)“. 1967

Plexiglass box with inlaid colour silkscreen on vinyl, mounted on plexiglass, and with 81 facsimiles in collotype print. 33,4 × 28,8 × 4 cm (13 ⅛ × 11 ⅜ × 1 ⅝ in.).
This picture shows the following artwork: Marcel Duchamp. „Cover for „A l'Infinitif““ (The White Box)“. 1967.

Estimate:

EUR 18,000

 

- 24,000

USD 20,200

 

- 27,000

Sold for:

45,000 EUR (incl. premium)

Autumn Auctions 247-254

Selected Works, Thursday, 26.11.2015

Information

Plexiglass box with inlaid colour silkscreen on vinyl, mounted on plexiglass, and with 81 facsimiles in collotype print. 33,4 × 28,8 × 4 cm (13 ⅛ × 11 ⅜ × 1 ⅝ in.). Signed on both the plexiglass plate, and on the title page of the accompanying volume with the English translation of the notes. Dated on the plexiglass plate: 1966 [!]. Catalogue raisonné: Schwarz 637. One of 150 numbered copies. New York, Cordier & Ekstrom, 1967. The original plexiglass box damaged in two places.

Jacqueline Matisse-Monnier and the Association Marcel Duchamp, Paris, have confirmed the authenticity of this work..

Private collection, Berlin

Accompanied by a confirmed duplicate of the original certificate by the Association Marcel Duchamp, Paris, dated 28 October 2015.

Grisebach - Das Journal. Issue 5, Berlin 2015, p. 20-33

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