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Georges Hugnet, Marcel Duchamp. La septième face du dé: Poèmes-découpages (The Seventh Face of the Die: Collage Poems)

Georges Hugnet, Marcel Duchamp

La septième face du dé: Poèmes-découpages (The Seventh Face of the Die: Collage Poems)

Published 1936

Book with twenty collotype reproductions of collages by Hugnet, some with watercolor additions; letterpress text; line-block illustrations; collage by Hugnet in cut-and-pasted printed papers; publisher’s original regular-edition paper cover with embossed relief-halftone reproduction of a photograph of Duchamp’s Why Not Sneeze Rose Sélavy? (1921) on cut-and-pasted paper; publisher’s original special-edition binding, Couvertures cigarettes (cigarette covers), by Duchamp, with covers of plastic sheets, white cloth, and hand-colored gelatin silver prints on boards; raffia side-sewn binding

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Author Georges Hugnet
Publisher Éditions Jeanne Bucher, Paris
Medium Book with twenty collotype reproductions of collages by Hugnet, some with watercolor additions; letterpress text; line-block illustrations; collage by Hugnet in cut-and-pasted printed papers; publisher’s original regular-edition paper cover with embossed relief-halftone reproduction of a photograph of Duchamp’s Why Not Sneeze Rose Sélavy? (1921) on cut-and-pasted paper; publisher’s original special-edition binding, Couvertures cigarettes (cigarette covers), by Duchamp, with covers of plastic sheets, white cloth, and hand-colored gelatin silver prints on boards; raffia side-sewn binding
Dimensions pages: 11 1/2 × 7 11/16" (29.2 × 19.5 cm); book (closed): 11 1/2 × 8 7/16 × 3/8" (29.2 × 21.5 × 0.9 cm)
Printer of plates Duval, Paris
Printer of text L'Imprimerie Grou-Radenez, Paris
Edition 294. Twenty numbered 1–20, with collage by Hugnet and special-edition binding by Duchamp; 250 numbered 21–270, with Duchamp’s Why Not Sneeze Rose Sélavy? pictured on the cover; twenty-four author’s copies lettered A–Z, with collage and special-edition binding, four on cream-colored Japon paper and twenty on blue paper. This copy lettered N
Credit Gift of Helen and Sam Zell
Object number 471.2022
Department Drawings and Prints

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Marcel Duchamp

Marcel Duchamp

American, born France. 1887–1968 192 works online

When Marcel Duchamp created his most famous work—the industrially produced urinal Fountain —it was largely ignored. Fountain was the high point of Duchamp’s campaign to dismantle and expand the boundaries of what constitutes a work of art; it had begun four years earlier, when he asked, “Can one make works that are not ‘of art’?

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