Lot Description
Marcel Duchamp (1887-1968)
Monte Carlo Bond (No. 1)
signed, inscribed, dated and numbered 'No 1 Rrose Sélavy M. Duchamp' (lower center); signed with initials 'RS' (on tax stamp)
Imitated Rectified Readymade--ink, gelatin silver print and printed paper with tax stamp
12 3/8 x 7 5/8 in. (31.5 x 19.5 cm.)
Executed in 1924.
Pre-Lot Text
The Collection of Robert Shapazian
Provenance
George Hoyningen-Huene, Los Angeles
Bevan Davies Books, New York
Acquired from the above by the late owner, 1982
Literature
R. Lebel, Marcel Duchamp , New York, 1959, pp. 50 and 91, pl. 105 (illustrated).
C. Tomkins, The World of Marcel Duchamp , New York, 1966, p. 106 (illustrated).
F. Naumann, "The Monte Carlo Bond," in The Mary and William Sisler Collection, New York, 1984, pp. 200-203 (illustrated in color), reprinted in Etant Donné , no 8, 2007, pp. 258-263 (illustrated in color).
A. Fischer and D. Daniels, die the way, always the others: Marcel Duchamp and the avant-garde since 1950 , Cologne, 1988, p. 90 (illustrated).
C. Tomkins, Duchamp: A Biography , New York, 1996, pp. 260-261, 269 and 309 (illustrated).
A. Schwarz, The Complete Works of Marcel Duchamp , vol. 2, New York, 1997, p. 703, no 406 (another example illustrated in color).
Exhibited
Paris, Galerie Goemans, Exposition de Collages , March 1930, no. 10 (another example exhibited).
New York, Museum of Modern Art, Fantastic Art, Dada, Surrealism , December 1936-January 1937, no. 225 (another example exhibited).
Munich, Haus der Kunst, Der Surrealismus, 1922-1942 and Paris, Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Le Surréalisme , March-August 1972, no. 139 (no. 134 in Paris; another example exhibited).
Philadelphia Museum of Art; New York, The Museum of Modern Art and The Art Institute of Chicago, Marcel Duchamp , September 1973-April 1974, no. 176 (another example exhibited).
Paris, Musée National d'Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, L'Oeuvre de Marcel Duchamp , January-May 1977, no.136 (another example exhibited).
Barcelona, Fundació Joan Miró; Madrid, Sala de Exposiciones de la Caja de Pensiones and Cologne, Museum Ludwig, Duchamp , February-August 1984, no, 90 (another example exhibited).
Venice, Palazzo Grassi, Marcel Duchamp , April-July 1993, p. 83 (another example exhibited).
Lot Notes
The artist intended to make 30 individual bonds, from which only eight were realized. This work has been authenticated by Mme. Jaqueline Matisse Monnier Marcel Duchamp and the Association.
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