Marcel Duchamp

Marcel Duchamp

1887 - 1968

The Bride Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors Even [The Green Box]

signed in red pencil inside the spine, inscribed and dated Paris 1934, with the embossed numbering 45

the complete portfolio, comprising one colour plate of Oculist Witnesses and 93 facsimiles of notes, drawings and photographs on various papers, loose (as issued), contained in the original green-flocked clamshell box with title outlined in punched holes

overall: 333 by 280 by 25 mm. 13⅛ by 11 by 1 in.

Executed in 1934; this work is number 45 from the edition of 300 (there is also a deluxe edition of 20 numbered in Roman numerals), published by Éditions Rrose Sélavy, Paris.