Prints, Drawings, and Photographs Box in a Valise (Boîte-en-Valise) And made in New York City, New York, United States, North and Central America 1935-41 (contents); 1938 (collotype); deluxe edition, Series A, 1943 Marcel Duchamp, American (born France), 1887 - 1968 Brown leather valise with handle containing sixty-nine miniature replicas and printed reproductions and one original, Virgin (No. 2), 1938, hand-colored collotype Currently not on view 1950-134-934 The Louise and Walter Arensberg Collection, 1950 |
LabelDuchamp’s Box in a Valise, also known as from or by Marcel Duchamp or Rrose Sélavy, contains miniature copies of a selection of the artist’s works, including his Nude Descending a Staircase (No. 2) and The Bride Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors, Even (The Large Glass), the originals of which are in the Museum’s collection. The replicas are stored in a meticulously constructed container with expanding wings, itself packaged in a leather carrying case. Duchamp created roughly three hundred versions of the Box, spanning seven editions, between 1941 and 1968. |
