MARCEL DUCHAMP (1887-1968)

Preview invitation to NOT SEEN and/or LESS SEEN of/by MARCEL DUCHAMP/RROSE SELAVY 1904-1964, Cordier and Ekstrom, Inc. 978 Madison Avenue, New York, January 13, 1965

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MARCEL DUCHAMP (1887-1968)
Preview invitation to NOT SEEN and/or LESS SEEN of/by MARCEL DUCHAMP/RROSE SELAVY 1904-1964, Cordier and Ekstrom, Inc. 978 Madison Avenue, New York, January 13, 1965
color half-tone print of L.H.O.O.Q. (rasée), affixed on the paper mount (invitation card); inscribed 'Miss Dorothy Miller' in an unknown hand in ink (on the reverse of the folded mount). Accompanied by the 4to. exhibition catalogue and invitation envelope.
3 x 2in. (7.5 x 5.1cm.) (L.H.O.O.Q.)

出版

Naumann, Marcel Duchamp, The Art of Making Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction,, Harry N. Abrams, 1999, pp. 256-258, 323; Schwarz, The Complete Works of Marcel Duchamp, Delano Greenidge Editions, 2000, p. 849

拍品專文

In 1919 Marcel Duchamp created the Dada masterwork and icon of 20th century art when he drew a mustache and beard on a color reproduction of Leonardo da Vincis Mona Lisa. He gave his creation the irreverent title L.H.O.O.Q., which when spoken quickly sounds like the French for 'she has a hot ass'. During the course of Duchamps career he would revisit this work several times and make copies or alterations. Here, in this 1965 invitation, Duchamp has come full circle shaving (rasée) his initial 1919 conception and leaving Mona Lisa as she was.

One of about 100 copies, this invitation is addressed to Miss Dorothy Miller who worked at the Museum of Modern Art, New York from 1934-1969. As Curator of the Museum Collections, she organized exhibitions of Charles Sheeler (1939), Lyonel Feininger (1944), and the now legendary group exhibitions 15 Americans (1952); The New American Painting (1958) and 16 Americans (1959).