Live Auction 11790Impressionist & Modern Works on Paper
Marcel Duchamp (1887-1968)
Lot 240

Marcel Duchamp (1887-1968)

Various Authors, View, Marcel Duchamp Number, series V, No. 20, View Inc., New York, 1945 (S. 283b, 508, see 509; see Bonk p. 168)

Closed3 February 2016

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GBP 12,500

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Marcel Duchamp (1887-1968)
Various Authors, View, Marcel Duchamp Number, series V, No. 20, View Inc., New York, 1945 (S. 283b, 508, see 509; see Bonk p. 168)
the complete magazine number with various reproductions and text, containing Pharmacy, a rectified readymade with hand-colouring (after the original readymade of 1914), on wove papers, Pharmacy tipped to a support sheet (as issued), signed and dated in pencil on the support 'm.duchamp 45', numbered '20'/100', dedicated and dated on the front fly-leaf 'Pour Maurice Lefebvre mon sauveur Affectueusement Marcel Duchamp Paris 1946', signed by the contributing artists on the back fly-leaf, bound (as issued), original paper-covered boards, stamp-inscribed '20%' in red on the cover. 10 x 10 in. (330 x 254 mm.)
album

Maurice Lefèbvre-Foinet, Paris, a gift from the artist in 1946, and thence by descent.
Private collection, France, by whom acquired from the above.

Specialist note

Marcel Duchamp gave this work to Maurice Lefèbvre-Foinet in 1946 to thank him for having secretly and safely kept his and Man Ray's works hidden during the Second World War. Maurice Lefèbvre-Foinet and Marcel Duchamp were very close friends, so much so that Lefèbvre-Foinet became the executor of Duchamp's estate after his death. With the signatures of the contributors, including: André Breton, Roberto Matta, Henriet and SidneyJanis, Joseph Cornell, Yves Tanguy, Maya Deren, Max Ernst, John Meyers, Julien Levy, Robert Allerton Parker, Mina Loy and Man Ray, amongst others.