Marcel Duchamp - Modern and Contemporary Editions New York Wednesday, May 21, 2008 | Phillips

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  • Literature

    Arturo Schwarz 483

  • Catalogue Essay

    This stencil was used to add the mustache and goatee to Leonardo's Mona Lisa for the reproduction of L.H.O.O.Q. (S. 369), incorporated in The Box in a Valise (S. 484). See figure.

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Mustache and Beard of L.H.O.O.Q.

1941
Pochoir on wove paper tipped to wove paper, frontispiece for a poem by Georges Hugnet entitled Marcel Duchamp, 1939, eight attached sheets including the cover,
I. 1 5/8 x 2 9/16 in. (4.1 x 6.5 cm).;
overall: 3 7/8 x 5 3/4 in. (9.8 x 14.6 cm).

from the unnumbered edition of 200 (there were also 20 on Montval laid paper and six on handmade Japan paper), published by Hugnet, Paris, very pale time staining, otherwise in good condition.

Estimate
$1,500 - 2,500 

Sold for $2,750

Modern and Contemporary Editions

21 May 2008, 2pm
New York