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Marcel Duchamp

Lot 106
15.11.2023 19:00UTC -05:00
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$ 1 512 000
AuctioneerSotheby´s
Event locationUSA, New York
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ID 1078790
Lot 106 | Marcel Duchamp
Estimate value
$ 1 800 000 – 2 500 000
Art House: The Collection of Chara Schreyer
Marcel Duchamp
1887 - 1968

De ou par Marcel Duchamp ou Rrose Sélavy (La Boîte-en-Valise), Series A signed, inscribed and dated Pour Bernard Ries ce no. V de vingt boites-en-valise contenant chacune 69 items et un original et par Marcel Duchamp New York Sept. 1942 (on the interior of the box); stamped bernard j. Ries and numbered no. V/XX (on the interior of the valise); signed, dated and inscribed Coloriage original Marcel Duchamp 1937 (on Mariée) original leather valise containing the original hand-colored collotype (Mariée) and sixty-eight miniature replicas and reproductions in black and white and in colors by Marcel Duchamp mounted on the original paper and contained within the box
Valise: 16 ⅛ by 14 ⅝ by 4 ⅛ in. 41 by 37.3 by 10.5 cm.
Box: 15 ½ by 13 ⅝ by 3 in. 39.5 by 34.5 by 7.6 cm.
Mariée: 12 by 7 ½ in. 30.3 by 19 cm.
Conceived in 1935-40; this example was assembled in New York in September 1942.

The authenticity of this work has been confirmed by the Association Marcel Duchamp.
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