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Marcel Duchamp and Shuzo Takiguchi, Rrose Sélavy in Wilson-Lincoln System , 1967 (Schwarz 344)

Marcel Duchamp and Shuzo Takiguchi

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Marcel Duchamp. Shuzo Takiguchi

Rrose Sélavy (Marcel Duchamp) in Wilson-Lincoln System , 1967

Lenticular print on thin white board. Hand signed by Marcel Duchamp in blue ink. Date, title and numbered on label verso. Unframed.
12 7/10 × 10 1/10 in
32.3 × 25.7 cm

Deluxe Edition 8/60

Catalogue Raisonne Reference: Schwarz, 344

Eager to share Marcel Duchamp with Japanese audiences, Shuzo Takiguchi - a Japanese-born poet, critic, and artist with ties to Surrealist circles, assembled an international portfolio of graphic works by various artists with strong ties to Duchamp, to accompany the deluxe version of his monograph, "To and From Rrose Sélavy (aka Marcel Duchamp)." The present work - Takiguchi's own piece, a lenticular double portrait - combines Rrose Sélavy's signature with Man Ray's 1930 profile of Duchamp. Its subject, Marcel Duchamp, then signed this work in pencil. Its title, "Rrose Sélavy in the Wilson-Lincoln System", refers to Duchamp's Green Box note describing a two-way, changeable portrait of presidents Abraham Lincoln and Woodrow Wilson. Rrose Selavy is, famously, Marcel Duchamp's pseudonym and alter ego. Duchamp died before Takiguchi's book was completed, so this print is one of the very last graphic works pencil signed by Marcel Duchamp. It was published in Japan, and is a very elusive work stateside. Another edition of this work is in the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art. The National Portrait Gallery and other major institutional collections.

Hand signed by Marcel Duchamp in blue ink recto. Sticker label verso bears printed title, edition number, year and description.

Measurements

Height:   10.10
Width:   12.70