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Boîte-en-valise XVII/XX, Museum Tombstone
12023-05-13T12:57:43-07:00Lauren Rooney597ff088ef1db884d9e8445c7e06bd004b6c1250427002plain2023-05-13T12:57:46-07:00Lauren Rooney597ff088ef1db884d9e8445c7e06bd004b6c1250Marcel Duchamp (American, born France, 1887-1968), Boîte-en-valise (Box in a Valise), 1948, Multimedia, 10.8 x 43.2 x 45.7 cm (4 ¼ x 17 x 18 in.), Gift of Katherine S. Dreier to the Collection of the Société Anonyme, Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT
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1media/Screen Shot 2023-05-13 at 1.57.54 PM_thumb.png2023-05-13T11:58:46-07:00Lauren Rooney597ff088ef1db884d9e8445c7e06bd004b6c1250Boîte-en-valise XVII/XX, inscribed to the Yale University Art Gallery5Duchamp inscribed this Boîte-en-valise to the Yale University Art Gallery in 1948. For its “original,” it contains a drawing of the logo used for the letterhead of the Société Anonyme, the short-lived museum and organization founded in 1920 by Duchamp, Man Ray, and Katherine Dreier. Dreier had donated the Société Anonyme’s collection to the Yale University Art Gallery in 1941.media/Screen Shot 2023-05-13 at 1.57.54 PM.pngplain2023-05-13T14:49:34-07:0041.30905, -72.93055Lauren Rooney597ff088ef1db884d9e8445c7e06bd004b6c1250