Numbered 686 on the justification page. Complete book with 18 lithographs (6 in color); 4 etchings (2 with aquatint); 1 photogravure, in color; 2 woodcuts; 1 foam and velvet object (folder front); reproductions; on wove paper (except folder front). Publisher: Pierre à Feu (Maeght Éditeur), Paris; Printer: Mourlot, Paris; Fabricator: Enrico Donati. Literature: R. Lebel, Marcel Duchamp, New York, 1959, no. 191 (another version illustrated p. 175); P. Cabanne, The Brothers Duchamp, Jacques Villon, Raymond Duchamp-Villon, Marcel Duchamp, New York, 1976, p. 253 (another version illustrated); M. Gibson, Duchamp Dada, Paris, 1991, no. 298 (another version illustrated p. 232); P. Hulten (ed.), Marcel Duchamp: Work and Life, Boston, 1993, no. 1:3 (another version illustrated p. 147). F. Naumann, Marcel Duchamp, The Art of Making Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction, New York, 1999, no. 6.23 (another version illustrated p. 167); A. Schwarz, The Complete Works of Marcel Duchamp, vol. I, New York, 2000, no. 523a (another version illustrated p. 788); G. Moure, Marcel Duchamp, Works, Writings, and Interviews, Barcelona, 2009, p. 94 (another version illustrated); F. Naumann, The Duchamp Family of Artists, Naples, 2014, no. MD-18 (another version illustrated p. 96). For each numbered copy of the exhibition catalogue, Marcel Duchamp, in collaboration with Enrico Donati, prepared a three-dimensional cover, composed of a pink foam-rubber breast surrounded by a rough circle of black velvet. On the back is a label with a blue border bearing the request PRIERE DE TOUCHER. Inside are twenty-four original illustrations, including five color lithographs by Victor Brauner, Max Ernst, Jacques Hérold, Wifredo Lam and Joan Miró; five etchings (one in color) by Hans Bellmer, Marcel Jean, Maria (Maria Martins), Yves Tanguy, and Dorothea Tanning; two woodcuts by Hans Arp; and twelve lithographs by Serge Brignoni, Alexander Calder, Bruno Capacci, Elizabeth van Damme, Julio de Diego, Enrico Donati, David Hare, Jacqueline Lamba, Matta, Kay Sage, Yves Tanguy and Toyen. Provenance: Sheldon Ross Gallery, Birmingham, Michigan; Property from the Estate of David Lebenbom, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan
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Sheldon Ross Gallery, Birmingham, Michigan; Property from the Estate of David Lebenbom, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan