Mustache and Beard of L.H.O.O.Q. from Marcel Duchamp

Marcel Duchamp · 1941

You're looking at Mustache and Beard of L.H.O.O.Q. from Marcel Duchamp — an illustrated book by Duchamp, nineteen forty-one. The piece is illustrated book with one pochoir, about 9 by 14 centimeters.

Medium Illustrated book with one pochoir · Dimensions composition (irreg.): 9/16 × 9/16" (1.5 × 1.4 cm); page: 3 9/16 × 5 11/16" (9 × 14.5 cm) · Credit Mary Ellen Meehan Fund and Purchase

Hanging beside it in The Steven and Alexandra Cohen Center for Special Exhibitions: Untitled (International Surrealist Exhibition, Paris), Landscape

Works like this one elsewhere in the museum: Poster for a Dada exhibition at Sidney Janis Gallery, Attention: Oeuvre d'Art, Artist's Shit No. 014, Come on the Telephone, Title Page (Titelblatt) from The Lord's Prayer (Das Vater Unser), Colombia

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