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Boîte-en-valise 0/XX, for Walter and Lou Arensberg: Museum Tombstone Information
12023-05-13T14:08:01-07:00Lauren Rooney597ff088ef1db884d9e8445c7e06bd004b6c1250427002plain2023-05-13T14:08:05-07:00Lauren Rooney597ff088ef1db884d9e8445c7e06bd004b6c1250Marcel Duchamp (American (born France), 1887-1968), From or by Marcel Duchamp or Rrose Sélavy (Box in a Valise) [de ou par Marcel Duchamp ou Rrose Sélavy (Boîte-en-Valise)], 1935-1941 (contents); 1938 (collotype); deluxe edition, Series A, 1943, Brown leather valise with handle containing sixty-nine miniature replicas and printed reproductions and one original, Virgin (No. 2), 1938, hand-colored collotype, Valise (closed): 16 x 14 ¾ x 4 1/4 inches (40.6 x 37.5 x 10.8 cm), The Louise and Walter Arensberg Collection, 1950, The Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA
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1media/Screen Shot 2023-05-13 at 3.44.04 PM_thumb.png2023-05-13T14:03:23-07:00Lauren Rooney597ff088ef1db884d9e8445c7e06bd004b6c1250Boîte-en-valise 0/XX (hors série), for Walter and Lou Arensberg, at the Philadelphia Museum of Art2Duchamp inscribed this Boîte-en-valise to the Arensbergs, his principal patrons, in March 1943. It entered the Philadelphia Museum of Art, along with the rest of the Arensberg collection, upon Walter Arensberg’s death. For its “original,” it contains a color guide to the pochoir reproduction of Duchamp’s 1912 drawing Virgin. Click to see tombstone information.media/Screen Shot 2023-05-13 at 3.44.04 PM.pngplain2023-05-14T09:16:19-07:0039.96634264890287, -75.18081589691656Lauren Rooney597ff088ef1db884d9e8445c7e06bd004b6c1250