Prints, Drawings, and Photographs

Relief Print and Zinc Printing Plate Related to a Brochure for the Julien Levy Gallery Exhibition Man Ray: Objects of My Affection (April 10-30, 1945)

1945

Marcel Duchamp, American (born France), 1887 - 1968. After Alexander Hackenschmied, also known as Alexander Hammid, Czech, 1907 - 2004.

Photomechanical relief print; zinc plate A reproduction on paper of Duchamp's enlargement of a photograph by Hackenschmied attached to a wood block, protected by a piece of Plexiglas attached by brads (recto); zinc plate with above design, adhered to other side of wood block (verso); accompanied by Julien Levy Gallery catalogue for April 1945 Man Ray exhibition for which image was appropriated
Image and sheet: 9 1/8 x 11 9/16 inches (23.2 x 29.4 cm) Plate: 8 3/16 x 9 5/16 inches (20.8 x 23.6 cm)

Currently not on view

2001-62-489a,b