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 notebook page and quick sketch, offering a fragment of his experimental, idea-driven process for The Bride Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors, Even.
The page feels like a private fragment made public—energetic, looping ink scrawled across a pale grid and punctuated by a small, ambiguous doodle that reads as both mechanical diagram and playful visual pun.
Issued in The Green Box, these reproduced notes helped redefine art as idea and instruction rather than only polished object, a move that anticipates and influences later conceptual art.
Medium
Collotype reproduction from a box with ninety-four collotype reproductions (some with lithograph)
Dimensions
sheet: 6 7/8 x 5 11/16" (17.5 x 14.5 cm)
Classification
Department
Credit
Purchase
Accession
1643.1968.28
Palette
Exhibitions