Prints & Multiples featuring Duchamp’s L.H.O.O.Q.
Prints & Multiples featuring Duchamp’s L.H.O.O.Q.
Property from the Carl Fredrik Reuterswärd Art Foundation
Marcel Duchamp
L.H.O.O.Q.
Lot Closed
September 25, 01:15 PM GMT
Estimate
300,000 - 500,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
Marcel Duchamp
1887 - 1968
L.H.O.O.Q.
signed in pencil, titled and inscribed pour Pierre de Massot
graphite and white gouache additions on a readymade colour reproduction of Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa on glossy smooth wove paper, accompanied by the original japon nacré folder
image: 270 by 180 mm. 10½ by 7 in.
sheet: 300 by 230 mm. 11⅞ by 9 in.
Executed in Neuilly-sur-Seine, September 1964; this example is one of three proofs reserved for the Artist, Pierre de Massot and Arturo Schwarz respectively, aside from the numbered edition of 35.
The Association Marcel Duchamp has confirmed the authenticity of this work.
A gift from the artist to Pierre de Massot, Paris
Carl Fredrik Reuterswärd, Sweden (presumably acquired from the above in the late 1960s)
The Carl Fredrik Reuterswärd Art Foundation, 2016
Schwarz 369f
Hanover, Sprengel Museum (on loan since 2012)
Hanover, Sprengel Museum, Gegeben sind Reuterswärd Fahlström Duchamp, March-June 2022, no. 63 (illustrated in colours)
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