Marcel Duchamp - Prière de toucher - Le surréalisme en 1947 - image-1

Lot 344 N

Marcel Duchamp - Prière de toucher - Le surréalisme en 1947

Auction 1163 - overview Cologne
09.12.2020, 11:00 - Day Sale - Modern and Contemporary Art
Estimate: 20.000 € - 25.000 €
Result: 25.000 € (incl. premium)

Marcel Duchamp

Prière de toucher - Le surréalisme en 1947
1947

Mixed media. Book with 24 lithographs and etchings in original slipcase and box, each linen-covered 42 x 21 x 4 cm (box: 26 x 22 x 8). The catalogue volume numbered '470' on the frontispiece. One of 950 plus 49 copies of the numbered edition of the catalogue "Le Surréalisme" for the exhibition "Internationale du Surréalisme" organized by Marcel Duchamp and André Breton at Galerie Maeght, Paris 1947 . With 24 lithographs and etchings on Velin supérieur. Published by Pierre à Feu/Maeght Éditeur, Paris 1947. - The catalogue volume with the painted foam rubber breast by Marcel Duchamp and Enrico Donati on the cover somewhat browned and with occasional traces of age; slipcase and box in fine condition.

Catalogue Raisonné

Schwarz 523

Provenance

Private collection, Switzerland