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Sur Marcel Duchamp

Title
Sur Marcel Duchamp / Robert Lebel ; avec des textes de André Breton & H.P. Roché.
Author
Lebel, Robert.
Publication
Paris : Editions Trianon, c1959.

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TextBy appointment only Spencer Coll. French 1959 93-355Schwarzman Building - Print Collection Room 308

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Additional Authors
  • Breton, André, 1896-1966.
  • Roché, Henri Pierre, 1879-1959.
  • Trianon Press. pbl
Description
51 folded sheets ([6], 191, [2] p.) : ill. (some col.), ports.; 31 cm.
Alternative Title
  • Eau & gaz à tous les étages.
  • Eau et gaz à tous les étages.
Subjects
Genre/Form
  • Collages – France – 20th century.
  • Plexiglas (TM)
Note
  • Issued also in a trade edition under same title.
  • Consists of 52 bifolia, in 4-leaf gatherings, except blank bifolium at beginning and final bifolium. Blank bifolium, blank leaf following t.p. and blank leaf at end are not counted in collation.
  • "Catalogue raisonné": p. 155-176. (For components of the present work, cf. nos. 202, 203 and 206.)
  • Issued unbound, in white paper covers and glassine wrapper. Contained in reddish brown cloth covered case with reproductions of Duchamp's notes, sketches and images on lining papers. Case includes small compartment with magnetic closure containing the hand col. signed photo. ("The large glass"), and large compartment containing the book, with black velvet paper covered compartment cover. On front of the latter is mounted the collage; on back is mounted one of the metal sheets of the pochoir used for printing the t.p. ill. ("Coffee mill"). Mounted on front of case is the "ready-made," a blue enamel coated metal plaque lettered in white "Eau & gaz à tous les etages" (facsim. of plaques affixed to French apartment houses in the 1890's); signed in white enamel paint: M.D. Cf. Schwarz, 347. Execution of case by Adine and Trianon Press.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 177-188) and index.
Indexed In (note)
  • Schwarz, A. Complete works of Marcel Duchamp
Call Number
Spencer Coll. French 1959 93-355
OCLC
  • 9880727
  • NYPG93-B57334
Author
Lebel, Robert.
Title
Sur Marcel Duchamp / Robert Lebel ; avec des textes de André Breton & H.P. Roché.
Imprint
Paris : Editions Trianon, c1959.
Edition
Ed. originale.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. 177-188) and index.
Indexed In:
Schwarz, A. Complete works of Marcel Duchamp, 344, 345, 347, 349
Local Note
137 copies designed by Duchamp and Arnold Fawcus and printed by Impr. Desgrandchamps, of which 110 were offered for sale. No. V of 10 copies numbered in roman with text printed on Grand Vélin d'Arches paper, issued in a case with a Duchamp "ready-made" mounted on front and including a hand col. signed photo.; signed by Duchamp and the author.
Illustrations: 1 collage : col. paper and black velvet paper ; image 15 x 15 cm. Col. paper torn around a metal stamp, on black background. Numbered V and signed: Marcel dechiravit. Subject: Self-port. in profile. References: Schwarz, 344. -- 1 photographic print mounted under Plexiglas : b&w, hand col. ; full-page. Photo. of "The large glass" version of "The bride stripped bare by her bachelors, even." Signed in white ink: Marcel coloriavit. References: Schwarz, 345. -- 1 mounted photomechanical print : collotype, pochoir, col. ; 31 x 12 cm. Mounted on t.p. Printed by Hourdebaigt, Beaufumé et Crampe. Reproduction of the painting "Coffee mill." -- 170 photomechanical prints : chiefly heliogravure, b&w (reproduction of photographs, paintings, drawings, etc.) ; various sizes. Numbered as fig. 1-fig. 48 (photos.) and pl. 1-pl. 122 (paintings, drawings, objects, constructions; some col., some mounted). Printed on Crèvecœur d'Arches Marais paper by S.A.P.H.O. (heliogravures in b&w) and Desgrandchamps (col. ill.).
Extra illustrations: 5 photomechanical prints : reproduction of drawings, monochrome ; 28 x 21 cm. or smaller. Laid in. References for the original drawings: Schwarz, 166, 172, 186, 190, 191.
Added Author
Breton, André, 1896-1966.
Roché, Henri Pierre, 1879-1959.
Trianon Press. Publisher
Added Title
Eau & gaz à tous les étages.
Eau et gaz à tous les étages.
Research Call Number
Spencer Coll. French 1959 93-355
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