Manuscript Notes of Marcel Duchamp 1912-1920 from À l'Infinitif (La Boîte Blanche) (In the Infinitive [The White Box])

Marcel Duchamp · 1912–20, published 1966

This one's called Manuscript Notes of Marcel Duchamp nineteen twelve to nineteen twenty from À l'Infinitif (La Boîte Blanche) (In the Infinitive [The White Box]) — an illustrated book by Duchamp, nineteen twelve to nineteen twenty, published nineteen sixty-six. It's bound English translation of manuscript notes, about 31 by 26 centimeters. Somewhere in there: the lettering, and the portrait of a person.

Medium Bound English translation of manuscript notes · Dimensions folder: 12 5/16 x 10 3/8" (31.2 x 26.3 cm) · Credit Gift of Cordier & Ekstrom, Inc.

Hanging beside it in The Steven and Alexandra Cohen Center for Special Exhibitions: Duplicate of The Chocolate Grinder and The Scissors (supplementary suite, plate 16) from The Large Glass and Related Works, Vol. 1, Color from À l'Infinitif (La Boîte Blanche) (In the Infinitive [The White Box])

Works like this one elsewhere in the museum: Urvashi - Staged Portrait, Gulmohar Park, Delhi; Street play, Om Swaha, India Gate, Delhi; Urvashi - Anti Dowry Sit-in, Poster for a Dada exhibition at Sidney Janis Gallery

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