Color from À l'Infinitif (La Boîte Blanche) (In the Infinitive [The White Box])

Marcel Duchamp · 1912–20, published 1966

This is a sheet from À l'Infinitif, also called the White Box — a folder of collotype facsimiles of Duchamp's handwritten notes, reproduced down to the tape and the pins. He published his working notes as an artwork in their own right, so that the thinking behind the objects would survive alongside them.

Medium Folder containing ten collotype reproductions of manuscript notes, one with tape and two with pins · Dimensions folder: 12 5/16 x 10 3/8" (31.2 x 26.3 cm) · Credit Gift of Cordier & Ekstrom, Inc.

Hanging beside it in The Steven and Alexandra Cohen Center for Special Exhibitions: Manuscript Notes of Marcel Duchamp 1912-1920 from À l'Infinitif (La Boîte Blanche) (In the Infinitive [The White Box]), The Continuum from À l'Infinitif (La Boîte Blanche) (In the Infinitive [The White Box])

Works like this one elsewhere in the museum: Attention: Oeuvre d'Art, Poster for a Dada exhibition at Sidney Janis Gallery, Artist's Shit No. 014, Grocery Store, DEC. 18, 1979, DEC. 17, 1979

More by Marcel Duchamp here: Why Not Sneeze Rose Sélavy?, In Advance of the Broken Arm, Network of Stoppages, Landscape, The Chess Players, The Passage from Virgin to Bride