Marcel Duchamp
(
Blainville-Crevon
1887 -
New York City
1968 )
Couple of Laundress’s Aprons, 1959/1960
Imitated rectified readymade: two potholders
(male and female), cloth and fur, male (203 x 177 mm),
female (205 x 198 mm).
Each apron signed Marcel Duchamp on cloth label on verso.
Edition 20
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Imitated rectified readymade: two potholders (male and female), cloth and fur, male (203 x 177 mm), female (205 x 198 mm). each apron signed in full Marcel Duchamp on cloth label verso.
Edition of 20 numbered copies, this i scopy nr. XIV/XX, for the luxe version of Boîte alerte, catalogue of the Exposition Internationale du Surréalisme, Paris, Galerie Cordier, December 15, 1859 - February 15, 1960. Both aprons enclosed in paper envelope, with green French Customs label, and red stamp: Echantillons sans valeur. We join the luxe catalogue itself, cardboard mail-box with printed catalogue of the exhibiton and eight missives lascives by Robert Benayoun, Micheline Bounoure, Alain Joubert, Joyce Mansour, Mimi Parent, Octavio Paz, André Pieyre de Mandiargues and XXX; a cable by Marcel Duchamp, Je purule Tu purules Lachaise Purules... transcribed on a facsimile of a standard pink form for French cables; a 45 rpm record with texts by Benjamin Péret and Joyce Mansour; four original colour lithopgraphes by Adrien Dax, Joan Miro, Max Walter Svanberg and Toyen; an echting by Maréchal; six colour postcards by Hans Bellmer, Salvador Dali, Arshille Gorky, Joan Miro, Max Walter Svanberg and Clovis Trouille. The lithographs and the etching signed by the artists. We also join a couple of ephemera, nearly as rare as the de luxe edition of the catalogue itself: three entrance tickets for the exhibition, nos. 003112b; 0033113b; 0033114b (limiting the visit to 15 minutes!) and 2 sheets of 4 blue stamps with the text Restez, enchanteresse.
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Literature:
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Arturo Schwarz, The Complete Works of Marcel Duchamp, London & New York, 1997, no. 574, ill. pp. 822-823
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