La Mariée mise à nu par ses célibataires même (Boîte verte)

Date1911-1915

Artist Marcel Duchamp (American, 1887-1968)

Publisher Édition Rrose Sélavy (Paris)

Printer Vigier et Brunissen (Paris)

CultureAmerican

MediumGreen-flocked cardboard box containing 93 facsimiles of photos, drawings, manuscript notes and one color plate, published September 1934

Editionedition 169 of 300 plus a deluxe edition of 20

DimensionsFull Case: 12 3/4 x 10 3/4 in. (32.4 x 27.3 cm)

Credit LineGift of Katharine Kuh (Katharine Woolf, class of 1925)

On View

Not on view

Period20th c

Classification(s)

SignedOn inner of spine of case, signed lower spine in orange [faintly]: Marcel Duchamp

MarkingsOn the front cover of the exterior in white dots: LA / MARIEE / MISE A NU / PAR SES / CELIBATAIRES / MEME; on inner of spine of case, printed in black ink: cette boîte no 169[number printed in red ink]/300 doit contenir 93[number printed in red ink] documents (photos, dessins et / notes manuscrites des années 1911-15) ainsi qu'une planche en couleurs.

BibliographyLebel, Robert. Marcel Duchamp. Translation by George Heard Hamilton. New York: Grove Press, 1959, cat. 166; Schwarz, Arturo, and Marcel Duchamp. The Complete Works of Marcel Duchamp. 3rd rev. and expanded ed. New York: Delano Greenidge Editions, 1997, pl. 435; Thirkell, Paul. From the Green Box to Typo/Topography: Duchamp and Hamilton’s Dialogue in Print. Tate Papers no. 3 (Spring 2005) ProvenanceCollections: Arensburg Collection c. 1948-49.

Vassar Exhibitions

Second Sight: Originality, Duplicity, and the Object

In Translation: Prints Across Media

Exhibition HistoryKatharine Kuh: Interpreting the New, Archives of American Art, NY, NY, 13 December 1994 - 13 March 1995; Summer Reading: The Recreation of Language in Twentieth Century Art, Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY, June 29 - September 16, 2001; Second Sight: Originality, Duplicity, and the Object, Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY, January 14 - April 10, 2005; In Translation: Prints Across Media, Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY, May 28 - September 18, 2022

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