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AdmittedMarcel Duchamp · 1965, published 1967
You're looking at Duplicate of The Large Glass, with missing elements added or The Large Glass Completed (supplementary suite, plate 17) from The Large Glass and Related Works, Vol. 1 — an illustrated book by Duchamp, nineteen sixty-five, published nineteen sixty-seven. It's etching and aquatint from the supplementary suite of 17 etchings (9 with aquatint) from an illustrated book, about 35 by 24 centimeters.
Medium Etching and aquatint from the supplementary suite of 17 etchings (9 with aquatint) from an illustrated book · Dimensions plate: 13 15/16 x 9 3/8" (35.4 x 23.8 cm); sheet: 19 13/16 x 12 13/16" (50.4 x 32.6 cm) · Credit Monroe Wheeler Fund
Hanging beside it in The Steven and Alexandra Cohen Center for Special Exhibitions: Duplicate of The Water-Mill (supplementary suite, plate 14) from The Large Glass and Related Works, Vol. 1, Monte Carlo Bond (No. 12)
Works like this one elsewhere in the museum: Pacific Gas and Electric Company, Sky Machine, Gas Pump. Set design for the ballet H.P. (Horsepower)
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
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