Marcel Duchamp's Boîte-en-valise: The Museum of MetamorphosisMain MenuIntroductionThe Museum of MetamorphosisCatalogue essayThe Seven Series of BoîtesBoîtes in Museum Collections around the World…and OnlineFurther Reading[bibliography page]Lauren Rooney597ff088ef1db884d9e8445c7e06bd004b6c1250
Boîte (Series E, 1963) at the Smart Museum - Detail (…pliant…de voyage)
1media/Screen Shot 2023-05-15 at 10.02.36 AM_thumb.png2023-05-15T08:04:59-07:00Lauren Rooney597ff088ef1db884d9e8445c7e06bd004b6c1250427001Marcel Duchamp (1887-1968), 1935-1941 [1963 edition], Mixed media, box, 37.9 x 40.5 x 9 cm., Smart Museum of Art, Chicago, IL. Detail showing the miniature oilcloth typewriter cover readymade, …pliant…de voyage [Traveler's Folding Item]plain2023-05-15T08:05:00-07:00Smart Museum of ArtLauren Rooney597ff088ef1db884d9e8445c7e06bd004b6c1250
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12023-05-15T07:51:21-07:00Series G5plain2023-05-15T08:05:48-07:00Issued in 1968, Series G consisted of 47 boxes, each stamped with the signature "Marcel Duchamp" and signed by Duchamp's wife, Teeny. These boxes feature all eighty reproductions included in Series F, and their outer containers follow the same design, only now clothed in green rather than red leather. When it came time to assemble this last series of Boîtes, the remaining copies of the tiny oilcloth reproductions of the typewriter cover readymade, …pliant,…de voyage [Traveler's Folding Item], fabricated in 1940, had deteriorated, and new ones had to be fabricated for the occasion.