MARCEL DUCHAMP (1887-1968)

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Lot 20 | MARCEL DUCHAMP (1887-1968)
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MARCEL DUCHAMP (1887-1968)
In Advance of the Broken Arm
signed and dated ‘Marcel Duchamp 1964’ (on the lower handle); signed, dated, numbered and stamped with title and inscription 'Marcel Duchamp, 1964 1/8 IN ADVANCE OF THE BROKEN ARM, 1915 EDITION GALERIE SCHWARZ, MILAN' (on a copper plate affixed to the handle)
wood and galvanized-iron snow shovel
Height: 51 5/8 in. (131.2 cm.)
Conceived in New York in November 1915; this version executed in 1964




Provenance

Galleria Schwarz, Milan.
Luhring Augustine Gallery, New York.
Joseph Kosuth, New York (acquired from the above).
Gift from the above to the present owners, 2003.



Literature

R. Lebel, Marcel Duchamp, Paris, 1959, pp. 39, 91 and 168, no. 125 (first version illustrated in situ in the artist's studio, pl. 83).
C. Tomkins, The World of Marcel Duchamp, New York, 1966, pp. 38-39 (another version illustrated, p. 39).
A. D'Harnoncourt and K. McShine, eds., Marcel Duchamp, exh. cat., The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1973, pp. 277-278, no. 111 (another version illustrated, p. 277).
J. Clair, Marcel Duchamp: Catalogue raisonné, exh. cat., Musée national d'art moderne, Centre Georges Pomidou, Paris, 1977, p. 84, no. 102 (another version illustrated).
C. Tomkins, Duchamp: A Biography, New York, 1996, p. 157.
F.M. Naumann, Marcel Duchamp: The Art of Making Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction, New York, 1999, p. 62 (first version illustrated in situ in the artist's New York studio, pp. 62 and 84, figs. 3.2 and 3.39).
A. Schwarz, The Complete Works of Marcel Duchamp, New York, 2000, vol. II, pp. 636-637, no. 332c (other versions illustrated, pp. 636-637; another cast illustrated, p. 367, pl. 118).
A.G. Marquis, Marcel Duchamp: The Bachelor Stripped Bare, Boston, 2002, pp. 124, 217, 260 and 282.
A. Schwarz, "The Philosophy of the Readymade and of its Editions" in J. Mundy, ed., Duchamp, Man Ray and Picabia, exh. cat., Tate Modern, London, 2008, pp. 125-127 (another version illustrated, p. 127).
F.M. Naumann, The Recurrent, Haunting Ghost: Essays on the Art, Life and Legacy of Marcel Duchamp, New York, 2012, pp. 89, 114, 390-391 and 404-407 (illustrated in color, p. 391, fig. 27.12; other versions illustrated, p. 391, figs. 27.9-27.10; first version illustrated in situ in the artist's studio, p. 114, fig. 12.3).
M. Affron, ed., The Essential Duchamp, exh. cat., Philadelphia Museum of Art, 2018, pp. 46, 56, 59 and 142-145 (first version illustrated in situ in the artist's studio, p. 58, fig. 52; another version illustrated in color, p. 143, fig. 152).



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