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Prints and Drawings
Artist: Marcel Duchamp, American, born France, 1887–1968
La Mariee mise a nu par ses Celibataires meme [Boite Verte] (The Bride Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors, Even [Green Box])
1934
One color plate and 93 facsimile notes, drawings, photographs contained in a green-flocked cardboard box
33.1 × 28.2 × 2.6 cm (13 1/16 × 11 1/8 × 1 in.)
Gift of Francis M. Naumann
1991.141.1
Geography:
Made in United States
Status:
Culture:
American, French
Period:
20th century
Classification:
Works on Paper - Prints
Provenance:
Box is accompanied by a letter from Beatrice Wood, 971 McAndrew Road, Ojai, California, dated June 17, 1969, stating that she received this box from Marcel Duchamp.
Bibliography:
Meredith Malone et al., Chance Aesthetics, exh. cat. (Saint Louis: Washington University, 2009), 126, pp. 126-127, ill.
Note: This electronic record was created from historic documentation that does not necessarily reflect the Yale University Art Gallery’s complete or current knowledge about the object. Review and updating of such records is ongoing.