Leather valise containing miniature replicas, photographs, color reproductions of works by Duchamp, and one "original" drawing [Large Glass, collotype on celluloid, 7 1/2 x 9 1/2" (19 x 23.5 cm)]
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Duchamp assembled twenty-four deluxe boxes, known as Series A, through 1949. Each box was signed, numbered, and housed in a leather suitcase with a unique artwork under the lid. Duchamp gifted and sold the boxes, priced at around $200, to friends, collectors, and institutions. Each of the initial boxes, including those for his patrons Louise and Walter Arensberg as well as MoMA, featured a unique “coloriage original,” produced as color guides for his printers. Later, Duchamp incorporated new artworks. The box for his lover, the artist Maria Martins, contained Wayward Landscape (Paysage fautif) (1946), an abstract composition made of seminal fluid.
Marcel Duchamp, April 12–August 22, 2026
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Marcel Duchamp
American, born France. 1887–1968 188 works onlineWhen Marcel Duchamp created his most famous work—the industrially produced urinal Fountain —it was largely ignored. Fountain was the high point of Duchamp’s campaign to dismantle and expand the boundaries of what constitutes a work of art; it had begun four years earlier, when he asked, “Can one make works that are not ‘of art’?
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