Marcel Duchamp - Evening & Day Editions New York Monday, October 28, 2013 | Phillips

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  • Literature

    Arturo Schwarz 637

  • Catalogue Essay

    In 1964, Duchamp recovered a group of 79 unpublished notes (dating from 1914-23) concerning the Large Glass that had been excluded from his original selection of notes for the Green Box, 1934. As most of the notes were written in the infinitive, he titled this publication A l'Infinitif.

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A l'Infinitif (The White Box)

1967
Screenprint on vinyl mounted on Plexiglas with 79 facsimile notes,
13 1/8 x 11 1/4 x 1 5/8 in (33.3 x 28.6 x 4.1 cm)
incised with signature, dated `1966' and numbered 119/150 on the Plexiglas, also signed in black on the title page, published by Cordier & Ekstrom, New York, in very good condition, facsimiles contained in original linen-covered portfolio with printed title on the front.

Estimate
$12,000 - 18,000 

Sold for $27,500

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Evening & Day Editions

New York 28 October 2013 10am & 6pm