Boîte-en-valise, 1961

Not on View

Medium

green linen-covered case containing 68 miniature replicas, photographs, black-and-white and color reproductions of works by Marcel Duchamp

Dimensions

overall (closed): 40.5 × 37.2 × 8.6 cm (15 15/16 × 14 5/8 × 3 3/8 in.)
overall (open): 88.3 × 37.2 × 40.3 cm (34 3/4 × 14 5/8 × 15 7/8 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Burton Tremaine

Accession Number

1972.75.4.a-ppp

Artists / Makers

Marcel Duchamp (artist) American, born France, 1887 - 1968

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Inscription

"Marcel Duchamp" interior bottom of case, blue ballpoint pen.
"Pour Mr. and Mrs. Burton Tremaine / Love affection / Marcel Duchamp / 1965" interior bottom of case, graphite.

Exhibition History

1993: Assignment Rescue: The Story of Varian Fry and the Emergency Rescue Committee, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington, 1993-1994.

2022: The Double: Identity and Difference in Art since 1900, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 2022, no. 10.