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Duplicate of The Water-Mill (supplementary suite, plate 14) from The Large Glass and Related Works, Vol. 1

Marcel Duchamp · 1965, published 1967

Here we have Duplicate of The Water-Mill (supplementary suite, plate 14) 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 32 by 25 centimeters. Somewhere in there: the staircase, and the machine.

Medium Etching and aquatint from the supplementary suite of 17 etchings (9 with aquatint) from an illustrated book · Dimensions plate: 9 11/16 x 5 9/16" (24.6 x 14.1 cm); sheet: 12 13/16 x 10" (32.5 x 25.4cm) · Credit Monroe Wheeler Fund

Hanging beside it in The Steven and Alexandra Cohen Center for Special Exhibitions: Further References to the Glass from À l'Infinitif (La Boîte Blanche) (In the Infinitive [The White Box]), 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

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