Untitled from The Bride Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors, Even (The Green Box) (La mariée mise à nu par ses célibataires, même [Boîte verte])
Marcel Duchamp
American, born France. 1887–1968
1934
A collotype reproduction of Marcel Duchamp’s handwritten note from the 1934 Green Box, intended to expose the artist’s technical instructions, sketches, and speculative thoughts behind The Bride Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors, Even.
A single pale sheet filled with quick, looping French script—erasures, crossings-out and tiny annotations crowd the page so closely the handwriting reads like a private mind laid bare.
As one of the Green Box reproductions, this piece helped make the artist’s working notes into art itself and anticipated conceptual practices that value ideas, instructions, and process as finished works.
Medium
Collotype reproduction from a box with ninety-four collotype reproductions (some with lithograph)
Dimensions
sheet: 9 1/16 x 6 1/4" (23 x 15.9 cm)
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Accession
1643.1968.17
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