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

Marcel Duchamp · 1966

Before you is Cover for À l'Infinitif (La Boîte Blanche) (In the Infinitive [The White Box]) — an illustrated book by Duchamp, nineteen sixty-six. A screenprint, the ink pushed through a stencilled mesh — flat unmodulated colour, and one screen for every colour in it. In the picture, look for the abstract geometric.

Medium Screenprint on vinyl · Dimensions composition (irreg): 6 15/16 x 4 11/16" (17.6 x 11.9 cm); Plexiglas: 12 13/16 x 10 15/16" (32.5 x 27.9 cm) · Credit Gift of Cordier & Ekstrom, Inc.

Hanging beside it in The Steven and Alexandra Cohen Center for Special Exhibitions: Monte Carlo Bond (No. 12), The Chess Players

Works like this one elsewhere in the museum: Head of a Woman, Composition in White, Black, and Red, Nasielk III, Neoconcrete Relief, Composition, Composition with Red and Blue

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