Prints & Multiples featuring Duchamp’s L.H.O.O.Q.

Prints & Multiples featuring Duchamp’s L.H.O.O.Q.

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Property from the Carl Fredrik Reuterswärd Art Foundation

Marcel Duchamp

L.H.O.O.Q. Shaved

Estimate

30,000 - 50,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

Marcel Duchamp

1887 - 1968

L.H.O.O.Q. Shaved


signed and titled in black and blue ball-point pen

readymade playing card with colour reproduction of Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa, mounted on a printed dinner invitation hand-addressed to Mr. Carl Fredrik Reuterswärd (as issued)

playing card: 87 by 62 mm. 3⅜ by 2½ in.

invitation: 212 by 139 mm. 8¼ by 5½ in.

Executed in 1965; this example is one of approximately 100 invitations prepared by Duchamp for the dinner given on 13 January 1965 in conjunction with the preview of Not Seen and/or Less Seen of/By Marcel Duchamp/Rrose Sélavy: The Mary Sisler Collection exhibited at Cordier & Ekstrom, New York (14 January - 13 February 1965).

Schwarz 615

Hanover, Sprengel Museum (on loan since 2012)

Hanover, Sprengel Museum, Gegeben sind Reuterswärd Fahlström Duchamp, March-June 2022, no. 64 (illustrated in colours)