Why Not Sneeze Rose Sélavy?

Marcel Duchamp · 1964 (replica of 1921 original)

This is Why Not Sneeze Rose Sélavy? — a painted metal birdcage filled with blocks of marble, a thermometer, and a piece of cuttlebone. Pick it up, if you could, and the weight is wrong: the sugar cubes are marble. Rrose Sélavy was Duchamp's alter ego.

Medium Painted metal birdcage containing marble blocks, thermometer, and piece of cuttlebone · Dimensions 4 7/8 x 8 3/4 x 6 3/8" (12.3 x 22.1 x 16 cm) · Credit Gift of Galleria Schwarz

Hanging beside it in Gallery 408: Fries, Untitled

More by Marcel Duchamp here: In Advance of the Broken Arm, Network of Stoppages, Landscape, The Chess Players, The Passage from Virgin to Bride, Duplicate of Top Inscription or Milky Way with The Nine Shots (supplementary suite, plate 6) from The Large Glass and Related Works, Vol. 1