Cimitière des uniformes et livrées, No. 2 (Cemetery of Uniforms and Liveries, No. 2) [The Bachelors and Nine Malic Moulds] Artist: Marcel Duchamp (American, born France, 1887–1968)

1914

Prints and Drawings

By appointment, Duffy Study Room
Medium

Graphite and watercolor

Dimensions

26 × 39 5/16 in. (66 × 99.8 cm)
framed: 27 × 40 3/8 × 1 1/2 in. (68.58 × 102.55 × 3.81 cm)

Credit Line

Gift of Katherine S. Dreier to the Collection Société Anonyme

Accession Number

1948.311

Geography

Made in France

Culture

French

Period

20th century

Classification

Drawings

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Bibliography
  • Valerie Fletcher, Surrealist Sculpture: Marvelous Objects from Paris to New York, 1st ed. (Washington, D.C.: Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, 2015), 18, fig. 3
  • Paul B. Franklin et al., Étant donné: Marcel Duchamp, Katherine S. Dreier, and La Société Anonyme, Inc. (Paris: Association pour l'étude de Marcel Duchamp, 2009), 235, ill
  • Ruth L. Bohan et al., The Société Anonyme: Modernism for America, ed. Jennifer Gross, exh. cat. (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 2006), 126, fig. 7
Object copyright
Copyright Artist/Estate/Foundation
In Copyright
Additional information

Object/Work type

watercolors

Inscriptions

Several arabic numbers inscribed faintly in pencil near "stoppage" lines, and two infinity signs next to two stoppage lines farthest to right\r\nInscribed in pencil u.l. "horizon a 31 cm 8 fo{rt ?}\r\nInscribed u.r. "Remonter a D / 2 = 71 cm 3-"\r\nInscribed u.r. and r. "Nepas oublier le polygone imaginaire / de sexe / probablement grave a l'acide / de l'autre cote du verre (face) / -Autant de terrecuites / -Dessin definitif retourne pour / le reporter sur verre / -Les 9 formes malic sont a l'ellipse / couleur provisoire. Elles sont passes au minium / en attendant qu'elles / recoivent chacune sa / couleur comme un / maillet de croquet / (couleur: Rouge de Saturne = Mine rouge = Minium)"\r\nInscribed u.r. "chiffres { } = chiffres reels transposes par perspective

Signed

Signed in pencil l.r. "Marcel Duchamp 1914" and "M.D. 1914"

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