Nine Malic Moulds

细节

Marcel Duchamp (1887-1968)
Nine Malic Moulds
incised with signature, date and numbering 'Marcel Duchamp 1937 9/9' (lower right)
hand-colored collotype on celluloid mounted in aluminum frame
Celluloid size: 6¾ x 10½ in. (17.2 x 26.6 cm.)
Frame size: 8 5/8 x 11 1/8 in. (22.9 x 28.2 cm.)
Executed in 1937-1938 and mounted in 1964

来源

Cordier & Ekstrom, New York.
Acquired by the late owners, circa 1980.

出版

E. Bonk, Marcel Duchamp, The Box in a Valise, de ou par Marcel Duchamp ou Rrose Sélavy, New York, 1989, p. 207 (another example illustrated).
F.M. Naumann, Marcel Duchamp, The Art of Making Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction, New York, 1999, p. 237 (another example illustrated, p. 235, fig. 8.43).
A. Schwarz, The Complete Works of Marcel Duchamp, New York, 2000, vol. 2, p. 632, no. 328b (another example illustrated, p. 633).

荣誉呈献

David Kleiweg de Zwaan

dkleiweg@christies.com Tel: + 1 212 636 2093

拍品专文

Madame Jacqueline Matisse Monnier and the Association Marcel Duchamp will issue a certificate of authenticity to the buyer of this work, upon request.

The Nine Malic Moulds were conceived by Duchamp for the lower section of his iconic work of 1915-1923, La Mariée mise à nu par ses célibataires, même (The Large Glass). Occupying part of the mechanical world of the Bachelor's Domain, along with the Chocolate Grinder and the Glider Containing a Water Mill, the Cemetery of Uniforms and Liveries (as the moulds were originally known) consists of eight figures named after uniformed characters: priest, department store delivery boy, gendarme, cuirassier, policeman, undertaker, flunky and busboy; the ninth, the stationmaster, was added later.