9 moules mâlic, étude

Details

Marcel Duchamp (1887-1968)
9 moules mâlic, étude
signed and dated 'marcel Duchamp 1938' (lower right)
gouache and collage on thin card
8 3/8 x 12 3/8 in. (21.3 x 31.5 cm.)
Executed in Paris in 1938

Provenance

Pierre Matisse Gallery, New York.
Cordier & Ekstrom, New York.
The Mary Sisler Collection, New York, by 1966.
Galerie Tarica, Paris, by whom acquired from the above circa 1970.
Hubertus Wald, Hamburg, by whom acquired from the above in October 1977.

Literature

E. Bonk, Marcel Duchamp, The box in a valise, New York, 1989, p. 206.
A. Schwarz, The Complete Works of Marcel Duchamp, vol. II, The Plates, Critical Catalogue Raisonné, The Sources, London, 1997, no. 468 (illustrated n.p).

Exhibited

Pasadena, Art Museum, Marcel Duchamp, A Retrospective Exhibition, October - November 1963, no. 49.
New York, Cordier & Ekstrom, Not Seen and/or Less Seen of/by Marcel Duchamp/Rrose Sélavy, 1904-1964, January - February 1965, no. 80.
London, The Tate Gallery, The Almost Complete Works of Marcel Duchamp, June - July 1966, no. 167.

Special notice

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Please note that the medium is gouache and paper collage on paper and not as stated in the catalogue.