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The Bride Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors, Even (The Green Box)

Marcel Duchamp American, born France
1934
Not on view
This edition of selected notes details the ideas and thought processes behind Duchamp's ground-breaking work The Bride Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors, Even (The Large Glass) (1915–23, Philadelphia Museum of Art). The haphazard appearance of the box’s contents belies the care Duchamp took in its creation: he painstakingly tore collotype reproductions along the edges of custom-made templates in the shape of ninety-three notes originally written on stray scraps of paper. The results offer viewers the opportunity to become active participants in the notes’ arrangement and interpretation.

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  • Title: The Bride Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors, Even (The Green Box)
  • Artist: Marcel Duchamp (American (born France), Blanville 1887–1968 Neuilly-sur-Seine)
  • Date: 1934
  • Medium: Box containing collotype reproductions on various papers
  • Edition: 112/300 from a deluxe edition of 20 + regular edition of 300
  • Dimensions: overall: 13 x 11 1/8 x 1 in. (33 x 28.3 x 2.5 cm)
  • Classification: Prints
  • Credit Line: Anonymous gift, 2002
  • Object Number: 2002.42a–vvvv
  • Rights and Reproduction: © 2025 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
  • Curatorial Department: Modern and Contemporary Art

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