To Be Looked at (from the Other Side of the Glass) with One Eye, Close to, for Almost an Hour

Marcel Duchamp · Buenos Aires 1918

This is To Be Looked at from the Other Side of the Glass with One Eye, Close to, for Almost an Hour — oil, silver leaf, lead wire and a magnifying lens on glass, standing in a metal frame. The glass is cracked. It broke in transit, and Duchamp declared the accident an improvement and left it.

Medium Oil, silver leaf, lead wire, and magnifying lens on glass (cracked), mounted between panes of glass in a standing metal frame, 20 1/8 x 16 1/4 x 1 1/2" (51 x 41.2 x 3.7 cm), on painted wood base, 1 7/8 x 17 7/8 x 4 1/2" (4.8 x 45.3 x 11.4 cm) · Dimensions Overall 22" (55.8 cm) high · Credit Katherine S. Dreier Bequest

Hanging beside it in The Steven and Alexandra Cohen Center for Special Exhibitions: Duplicate of The Oculist Witnesses (supplementary suite, plate 12) from The Large Glass and Related Works, Vol. 1, Box in a Valise (From or by Marcel Duchamp or Rrose Sélavy)

Works like this one elsewhere in the museum: Construction with Curved Forms, Head of a Woman, Visual Synthesis of the Idea: "War", Composition with Color Planes 5, Construction in White and Black, 2x-2

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