Marcel Duchamp (1887-1968)

Antwerpen, Ronny Van de Velde, 1991. Portfolio with exposition books, cassette tape, postcards, and so on. in wooden storage box in the shape of a chessboard (37 x 37 x 6 cm.) In slipcase. 175/850 ex.

Deluxe edition of the Marcel Duchamp-exposition catalogue in Ronny Van de Velde, Antwerp; 15 September - 15 December, 1991. Complete content according to the colofon: A portfolio with faithful reproductions of works by Duchamp, also including a copy of H. Vuibert, Les anaglyphes géométriques, Paris, Librairie Vuibert, 1912 (with 3D-glasses) and a reproduction of a page from The Blind Man No. 2 (P.B.T.); a book with articles on Duchamp by André Breton and Arturo Schwarz (inserted, on a seperate sheet, a reproduction of Le Grand Verre); an audio tape of Duchamp speaking; a single photograph of "Marcel Duchamp at the age Eighty-Five" for View's special Marcel Duchamp number; this very colophon. All these items are packed in a wooden box, the top and bottom of which being reproductions of Duchamp's ' mental' Chess Board."