Virtual MoMA Explore MoMA's current installations online
·
Built by Nancy Wang

Virtual MoMA

Admit one

The Museum

Admission free · virtualmoma.nyc

Admitted

Duplicate of The Nine Malic Moulds and The Capillary Tubes (supplementary suite, plate 8) from The Large Glass and Related Works, Vol. 1

Marcel Duchamp · 1965, published 1967

This one's called Duplicate of The Nine Malic Moulds and The Capillary Tubes (supplementary suite, plate 8) from The Large Glass and Related Works, Vol. 1 — an illustrated book by Duchamp, nineteen sixty-five, published nineteen sixty-seven. The piece is etching and aquatint from the supplementary suite of 17 etchings (9 with aquatint) from an illustrated book, about 33 by 25 centimeters.

Medium Etching and aquatint from the supplementary suite of 17 etchings (9 with aquatint) from an illustrated book · Dimensions plate: 5 3/16 x 7" (13.2 x 17.8cm); sheet: 12 13/16 x 9 15/16" (32.6 x 25.3cm) · Credit Monroe Wheeler Fund

Hanging beside it in The Steven and Alexandra Cohen Center for Special Exhibitions: Perspective from À l'Infinitif (La Boîte Blanche) (In the Infinitive [The White Box]), Untitled (International Surrealist Exhibition, Paris)

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