Handmade Stereopticon Slide

Marcel Duchamp · c. 1918–19

You're looking at Handmade Stereopticon Slide — a drawing by Duchamp, around nineteen eighteen to nineteen nineteen. The piece is pencil on gelatin silver prints mounted on black-paper-surfaced board, about 7 by 17 centimeters. It is among the smallest things here — you could close a hand around it.

Medium Pencil on gelatin silver prints mounted on black-paper-surfaced board · Dimensions 2 5/8 x 6 3/4" (6.8 x 17.2 cm) · Credit Katherine S. Dreier Bequest

Hanging beside it in The Steven and Alexandra Cohen Center for Special Exhibitions: Untitled (International Surrealist Exhibition, Paris), Duplicate of The Sieves or Parasols (supplementary suite, plate 10) 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