Marcel Duchamp | Richard Hamilton

Property from the Estate of Mark Lancaster

Richard Hamilton and Marcel Duchamp

1922 - 2011 and 1887 - 1968

The Bride Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors, Even Again

signed in blue ballpoint pen by Duchamp and in pencil by Hamilton on the colophon and numbered 4/25

the complete book, comprising photomechanical reproductions, with text by Hamilton, on wove paper, contained in the original green boards and cloth-covered slipcase; together with two 'Slip it to Me' badge buttons and a typed letter from Mark Lancaster to Marcel Duchamp, one page, dated 22 January 1965, returned to the sender with the artist's handwritten annotations in blue ballpoint pen, discussing Duchamp's work with Alfred Stieglitz

overall: 12⅛ by 8¼ by ½ in. 308 by 210 by 12 mm.

Executed in 1966; this example is from the numbered edition of 25, published by the Department of Fine Art, University of Newcastle upon Tyne.