Lot 127
127
Marcel Duchamp (1887-1968)
The Collection of Robert Shapazian
Marcel Duchamp (1887-1968)

Couverture-Cigarette (Stripped-Down Cigarette Tobacco)

Price realised USD 86,500
Estimate
USD 80,000 – USD 120,000
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Marcel Duchamp (1887-1968)

Couverture-Cigarette (Stripped-Down Cigarette Tobacco)

Price realised USD 86,500
Closed: 11 Nov 2010
Price realised USD 86,500
Closed: 11 Nov 2010
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Marcel Duchamp (1887-1968)
Couverture-Cigarette (Stripped-Down Cigarette Tobacco)
signed 'Marcel Duchamp' (on a fragment of green paper affixed to the lower edge of the mat)
color photograph and paper
11 7/8 x 8 1/8 in. (30.2 x 20.7 cm.)
Executed in 1935-1936.
Provenance
Timothy Baum, New York
Acquired from the above by the late owner, 1984
Literature
A. Schwarz, The Complete Works of Marcel Duchamp, vol. II, New York, 1997, pp. 733-734.
F. Naumann, Marcel Ducahmp: The Age of Making Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction, New York, 1999, pp. 129 and 131.

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