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Duchamp, Marcel

Duchamp, Marcel. Marcel Duchamp. Wooden box with multiples. Exhibition catalogue. Ronny Van de Velde, Antwerpen, 1991. Limited edition.
Number 328 of 850 stunning "De Luxe" catalogues for the exhibition in gallery Ronny Van de Velde in Antwerpen 1991. A wooden box with top and bottom being a reproduction of Marcel Duchamps' "mental chessboard." Size 370 x 370 mm housed in a black slipcase. Fine condition. In the box is a list of the exhibited objects, a portfolio with reproductions of works by Marcel Duchamp including a copy of H. Vuibert, Les Anaglyphes géométrique, Librairie Vuibert, Paris, 1912 (with 3 D-glasses) and a reproduction of a page from The Blind Man No. 2 (P. T. B. ); a book with articles on Duchamp by André Breton and Arturo Schwarz inserted on a separate sheet, a reproduction of Le Grand Verre; an audiocassette of Duchamp speaking; a single photograph of "Marcel Duchamp at the Age of Eighty-Five" for the special Marcel Duchamp number. Each box is numbered inside the cover, which is a chessboard.